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Cupcakes for Infertility

June 13, 2011 Clear Passage Physical Therapy No comments

Cupcakes for Infertility

Among the one in eight US couples who struggles with infertility, we meet the Arbeau family.

Matthew and Melissa Arbeau are a  fun loving Canadian couple who has been married for almost 6 years and trying to conceive their first child for a period over 5 years.

After visiting several fertility specialists and discovering that their health coverage did not cover fertility treatment, the couple was given the following options:

  • Give up and accept the diagnosis
  • Get a loan or ask for money
  • FIGHT

They chose to fight, but they chose unique battle gear for their fight – flour and sugar.

The couple decided to bake homemade cupcakes and bring them to their local Sunday flea market and also raise infertility awareness in the process. All money raised would be saved up and going towards the costs of infertility.

Their first Sunday at the market was a HUGE success and also very eye opening.

“We had a poster there that said Cupcakes For Infertility on it. People were coming up to us making jokes about our “magical powered fertility cupcakes” they didn’t know what infertility meant, they just saw the fertility part. I knew from then on I was going to tell everyone about infertility that I could so that people would understand and know that it really does happen,” said Melissa Arbeau.

Armed with sweet treats and a sorrowful story, the couple continues to fight for advocacy and the chance to build a family – one cupcake at a time.

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Prior C-Section Can Cause Adhesions

April 21, 2011 Clear Passage Physical Therapy No comments
C-Section Adhesions Scar Tissue

C-section surgery generally causes adhesions to form. These adhesions can pull or spread into neighboring structures, causing c-section pain or dysfunction, including secondary infertility.

C-section Can Cause Adhesions

Cesarean section delivery (C-section) is the most common surgery among women in the US. Unfortunately, this invasive surgical procedure requires a great deal of healing to occur. Adhesions are one of the bodies automatic responses to traumas such as a fall, a surgery, an infection, or an inflammation. These adhesions are much like thick strands of nylon rope that bind to nearby structures and restrict and cover the traumatized area. Though they are designed to help the body heal, adhesions often cause ongoing pain or dysfunction, long after the surface scars have healed.

Adhesions Can Cause Pain

Because adhesions attach to nearby tissues and organs, they create a pull or restriction in the pelvis, which often results in pain. As the organs, tissues, and muscles attempt to move, a resulting pain occurs.

Secondary Infertility if often caused by C-section Adhesions

Adhesions that form after a C-section can bind together delicate reproductive structures, causing dysfunction and secondary infertility.

Adhesions Can Cause Secondary Infertility

As adhesions form throughout the pelvis, they can attach to the delicate organs of the female reproductive system. These strong, fibrous bands restrict the mobility and function of these organs, often causing secondary infertility.

Adhesions Can Cause Digestive Issues

Adhesions can also affect regular digestion by attaching to the outside or inside of the intestine wall. As adhesions bonds grow, they restrict the regular function of digestion, and can often lead to a partial bowel obstruction.

Treatment for Adhesions

Often times, pain killers or infertility drugs are offered as a treatment for those who suffer from post-surgical adhesions. Unfortunately, drugs merely mask the true problem of adhesions and offer no long-term solutions. The next step in treatment is to undergo surgery to cut or burn adhesion bonds throughout the pelvis. However, the trauma of an additional surgery causes additional adhesions to form, which can create an endless cycle of adhesions and surgery.

A manual physical therapy, called the Wurn Technique, has shown excellent results in decreasing pain and increasing function related to adhesions. This therapy feels much like a deep pelvic massage as therapists use their hands to break down the bonds of adhesions throughout the pelvis. This therapy has been endorsed by physicians from Harvard, Northwestern, and Columbia as an alternative treatment to surgery. Click here to learn more about this treatment for post C-section adhesions.

“What a much-needed, useful and safe way to deal with the common, yet mystifying problem of adhesions. You have perfected a technique to treat adhesions, with years of experience, scientific backup and case studies to prove it.”

-Dr. Leslie Mendoza Temple, Northwestern University Medical Director

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Share Hope on Twitter for Infertility Awareness

April 18, 2011 Clear Passage Physical Therapy No comments

For parents, each birth is a fairy tale. For millions of infertile women, it’s a hope that sustains them each month, as they search for answers to make their dream of creating a family into a reality.

To honor National Infertility Awareness Week, April 24 to 30, Clear Passage Physical Therapy is hosting the Share Hope campaign as an effort to raise awareness for the infertility community and to connect people in a cause that affects more than 10 million US couples.

Twitter users are invited to  share their infertility stories in less than 140 characters, accompanying their posts with the hash tag “#sharehope.”  Each day, the most heart-warming or humorous tweet will be awarded a free book from a recognized fertility professional and an entry to win 20 hours of hands-on infertility treatment at Clear Passage Physical Therapy, a grand prize worth $5,200.


The winner will be chosen on May 1. In addition to the free hands-on infertility treatment, she will receive a free copy of “Miracle Moms, Better Sex, Less Pain” by Belinda Wurn, PT and Larry Wurn, LMT, founders of the Wurn Technique® and co-directors of Clear Passage Physical Therapy, a national network of clinics treating female infertility and pain.


The week-long campaign features book copies from experts including Dr. Christiane Northrup, Dr. Lissa Rankin, Toni Weschler, Kristen Magnacca , and many more.


There are many causes of female infertility, from mechanical problems such as adhesions or blocked fallopian tubes, to hormonal conditions.  Each patient is different, and no single protocol is right for every case. Many have spent years searching for the answer in their own personal quest, feeling alone and isolated in their endeavor.

Watch the Share Hope Video on YouTube.

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Fertility Treatment – The Natural Way

April 11, 2011 Clear Passage Physical Therapy No comments

Fertility Treatment Options

Couples having trouble getting pregnant suffer frustration, even shame. Experts estimate that about 20 percent of couples will suffer from infertility, temporarily or permanently. The incidence of infertility is about equally divided between women and men. The causes of infertility are both physical and psychological. But, happily, a number of effective fertility treatments are available.

Nature’s Way

Doctors recommend that women try at least one year to get pregnant naturally before seeking help. Timing and observation are the keys. Fertility experts say that to get pregnant, women should have sex two or three days before they ovulate, their most fertile days.

So-called alternative fertility treatments may help some women. Claims have been made for fertility herbs, oils, massages and diets. More research needs to be done on these types of fertility treatments. But two alternative fertility treatments that have been researched and proven effective are acupuncture and a particular physical therapy.

When combined with conventional medical fertility treatments, acupuncture has been shown to be beneficial. It’s believed that acupuncture reduces stress hormones in the body, which interfere with conception.

A unique physical therapy procedure called the Wurn technique has proved highly effective. This hands-on fertility treatment breaks down adhesions, or scarring, one of the leading causes of infertility. This fertility treatment uses pelvic physical therapy to decrease adhesions and increase the function of reproductive organs and glands.

Many women choose natural or alternative fertility treatments because no surgery or drugs are involved. Although alternative therapies are gaining favor, most women still choose conventional fertility treatments, which, in general, do involve surgery or drugs.

Medical Interventions

Surgery to repair part of the reproductive system—in either women or men—helps in some cases. For example, surgery is used to remove fibroid tumors from the uterus or adhesions from the fallopian tubes, both common causes of infertility.

The most common fertility treatment is the administration of fertility drugs to women, either through pills or through injections. Fertility drugs help balance a woman’s hormone levels and help her body ovulate. Some fertility drugs increase the number of eggs a woman produces. This can lead to multiple births—twins, triplets or more.

Another, more advanced, fertility treatment goes under the broad category of assisted reproductive technology (ART). ART differs from intrauterine insemination (IUI), or artificial insemination, in which only the sperm is handled. With IUI, the donor sperm is inserted into the woman’s uterus through a catheter. IUI is an in-office procedure. With ART, both sperm and eggs are manipulated.

In ART procedures, eggs from a woman’s ovaries are surgically removed, combined with sperm in a laboratory and returned to the woman’s body. In vitro fertilization is the best-known ART procedure. Although effective, ART poses some potential problems, including low birth weight, premature delivery and multiple births.

Given the range of fertility treatments available, women need to work with their primary care provider or obstetrician/gynecologist to find just the right fertility treatment to help them become pregnant.

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Infertility’s Undiagnosed Cause and a Possible Cure

January 12, 2011 Clear Passage Physical Therapy No comments

On January 17, 2011, Lifetime TV’s, The Balancing Act, will examine the controversial book, Miracle Moms, Better Sex, Less Pain and its claims that a hands-on physical therapy helped hundreds of women overcome infertility. Hostess Danielle Knox will discuss this breakthrough fertility treatment, called the Wurn Technique®, with Larry and Belinda Wurn, book authors and developers of the therapy. The book contains dozens of stories from infertile women who became pregnant naturally after receiving the hands-on technique. This all-natural method uses neither surgery nor drugs, and also relieves pelvic and intercourse pain that plague millions of women, the authors said. Knox will examine their book as part of Lifetime’s author interview series.

In peer-reviewed medical journals, the therapy has shown promising results increasing fertility and opening blocked fallopian tubes. Doctors from Harvard, Columbia and Northwestern medical schools have touted the book and therapy as a valuable resource for consumers and medical professionals.

During the interview, the Wurns share the story that led to the discovery of their innovative non-surgical treatment for infertility. They found adhesions were a common factor in their infertile patients, and developed this method to decrease them. “Adhesions form naturally when the body heals from surgery, trauma, or infection,” Belinda said. “They can act like glue, binding organs and tissues together, and causing pain and infertility.” Because they are difficult for physicians to diagnose and treat, many women are unaware that adhesions can contribute to blocked fallopian tubes, infertility, endometriosis, pelvic and tailbone pain – and even abnormal hormone levels.

The book contains study results and stories from more than 80 patients about success overcoming pain and years of infertility following treatment at the Wurns’ “Clear Passage” clinics. “You succeeded in breaking adhesions that blocked my fallopian tubes. The tests confirm this and I was able to achieve a pregnancy because of your remarkable work, “said Clear Passage patient Melissa Gonzales.

“We were initially surprised that the therapy could make such dramatic improvements without drugs or surgery,” Larry Wurn said. “The success of Clear Passage continues through the changed lives of countless women who visit our clinics from all over the world.”

The Wurns began to develop their work in the 1980s, after Belinda contracted cancer. The surgery that saved her life seemed like a Godsend at the time. But a year later, the adhesions that formed after the surgery left her in debilitating pain. Desperate to find a solutions to the pain Belinda and her husband, Larry Wurn, began exploring non-surgical treatments to give Belinda her life back.

“My doctors said there was nothing they could do about the pain,” Belinda said. “At 30 years old and newly married, I could not accept that I would be crippled by pain and adhesions for the rest of my life. We had no idea that the therapy we developed to treat me would help so many infertile women.”

See full article here: Infertility’s Undiagnosed Cause and a Possible Cure

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