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Twitter Users Share Hope for NIAW

May 3, 2011 Clear Passage Physical Therapy No comments

A number of people requested to read all the tweets posted from our Share Hope infertility awareness giveaway. We were overwhelmed by the positive responses we received and the community that was built among those who shared their joys, sorrows, and hope.


Share Hope Tweets:

I came to the realization that #infertility will never fight fairly but hope will ALWAYS be on our side #ShareHope

Endo & Infertility has caused so much heartache, that my husbands exact words were “I want my wife back” #Endo #ShareHope#Infertility

I am more aware of those who suffer just like me. Just when we want to give up, DON’T!! Always have hope #ShareHope

Just left church, and today’s message was on hope. God always helps me to find peace #sharehope

Thanks so much for this week! I will take it with me and continue to do what I can with the renewed faith you’ve given me.#sharehope

The blockage in my body can’t block my hope, my courage, or my dreams of possibility. It’s just an obstacle I have to work around.#sharehope

There is something special in store for my husband and I, no mater how we receive #ShareHope

The pain of Infertility can be devastating. But we can’t let it consume us. “Lose not faith, lose not courage, go forward”. #sharehope

Even I don’t completely understand my wifes heartache. All I can do is wipe her tears. not knowing what to say. nor what to do.#sharehope

Summoning strength to be strong for my wife, she’s discouraged. So hard when you can feel your wife’s pain so vibrantly.#sharehope #NIAW

I appreciate everybody who has helped me be a little more okay with being who I am, including #infertile. #ShareHope

#SHAREHOPE sadness pain when will i laugh again.my body aches and i feel so low,what the future holds we will never know,a miracle for me x

Stepping out on faith is a good way to fall and hurt yourself, but it’s also the only way to the other side. Keep stepping out.#sharehope

#sharehope when will i be rewarded,when will my baby come to me,when will the pain go away, when will i suceed. when when when?

It’s not a shame to have hope and dreams unfulfilled, but it is an awful shame not to hope and dream at all.#sharehope

Infertitlity has made me a stronger more faith driven WOMAN! Infertitlity can make everything else that much more managable!!!#sharehope

Every disappointment is an opportunity to learn and a chance to grow. This journey is all about love, hope, and baby steps.#sharehope

I will NEVER give into my infertility! I will nvr let it over take my life w/ sadness! Eventually life will be created within me! #sharehope

I have more love for my future baby than the world has shown for the royal wedding #sharehope

Its crazy to think how many of us women have the courage to tell our story of infertility, cause 4 me at times…its embaressing.#sharehope

Different direction but same destination, yet our lessons come from our journey. Cry when it’s over, & smile because it happened#sharehope

Infertility has never been kind to me but there are many moments when I appreciate the strength that it has given me #ShareHope#NIAW

If I gave in each month and let my infertility take pieces of my spirit what would be left of my strength when my baby arrives?#ShareHope

In order for us to get up and move forward in our battle each day we must first learn how to release what is holding us back#ShareHope

#ShareHope No matter what happens, I am so glad to have learned that I can handle so much more than I ever thought I would have to handle.

I am a warrior, I am a nurturer, and my capacity to love is endless. My arms may be empty now, but I am already a mother!#sharehope

#infertility allows us to connect profoundly with our unborn children. They have a special purpose, & this journey is part of it!#sharehope

Ectopic preg, 5 failed IVF, blocked tube. My heart said don’t give up, even if I can’t get up. Determination is the key! #ShareHope

I Expect the worse, hope for the best, & pray for patience.#ShareHope

I know that someday, somehow – I will get there. I will find a way to parent & this will all have been worth it. #ShareHope #NIAW

I can envision the day when my dream comes to life and all of the wonder in my heart is replaced with joy #ShareHope

Our baby wants us as much as we want them. This is the rapidly thinning distance between creation & existence #sharehope#infertility #NIAW

My hope: when new life is stirring inside when a tiny heartbeat is heard 4 the 1st time & a playful kick tells me I am nvr alone#sharehope

Hey Baby, sorry we’re late, your father wouldn’t stop for directions. I knew it was the LEFT TUBE! Ugh. See you soon. Love Mom.#sharehope

I look toward the future and let my dreams pull me through the difficult moments of infertility #ShareHope #NIAW

the cost to have a baby is no where near the cost it takes to make one. Saving for treatment! 11 years infertile and counting#sharehope

If I said my (our) situation was hopeless, then I’d be slamming the door in the face of God #ShareHope

miracles sometimes come in packages we can unwrap and often the gift is a lesson which gives us strength and lends us new hope#sharehope

unconventional treatment can sometimes bring us back to forgotten knowledge that is then rediscovered wisdom & becomes a new hope #sharehope

#infertility creates an instant community of warriors lifting & encouraging each other. It’s an honor to be among you.#sharehope #NIAW

#sharehope Hope=Faith=Patience=Time=Happy=Love

you know I realized that women who struggle w/TTC appreciate and fall in love more with their baby when finally conceiving!#sharehope

I will always remember that every failure can be a stepping stone to something better. Giving up is NOT ME! #sharehope

I aim for the stars, because even if I miss, I’ll still be among the stars! We have to keep the faith! #ShareHope

If I face my infertility with the belief in miracles then I know there is always the possibility of experiencing one. #ShareHope #NIAW

38 mo. of trying, dealing with #infertility = 38 mo. of being on the miracle path. This child was amazing before we started.#sharehope

Through the needles, plastic cups, predictor kits, prayers, and mystery teas with eye of newt- remember girl, you are never alone.#sharehope

When I want to give up, my pre-conceived child whispers, “I’m here. Keep going! I can only arrive through you!” #sharehope #NIAW

Through infertility’s challenges, women of strength, humility, and grace are being conceived. I walk beside you, I hold your hand#sharehope

Genesis 21:2 is a passage of hope and dreams #sharehope

#sharehope infertility isn’t for the weak or meek! It’s made me so much stronger than I ever thought I could be.

I could be a mom. my body just doesn’t know it yet. She’ll catch up sooner or later. #niaw #sharehope

dealing with this has taken such a toll on me physically and emotionally, but I can’t give up this dream of mine #sharehope

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NIAW Effort Shares Hope

April 26, 2011 Clear Passage Physical Therapy No comments


Share Hope is an awareness effort to bring light and hope to the infertility community during National Infertility Awareness Week. Those who struggle with infertility were asked to post their stories, their experiences, and their hopes on Twitter. This is a compilation of some of these tweets that are sharing hope across the nation.

Share Hope Tweets:

#sharehope: Infertility => 2 kids => designed/led infertility bible study => published … => now, sharing hope globally!

10 yrs of experience in infertility field & have personally battled w/ secondary infertility. I believe in this amazing process

#sharehope 8 yrs IF: I became a step-mum, but DH has vasectomy, need IVF, ICSI v.expensive :( no funding, no treatment, no child for us

#sharehope 1 m/c, OI, 1 live baby (almost 2yo), Lupron tx now for endo, then ttc #2. happy #NIAW11

#sharehope 2 years of more sex than Ron Jeremy, 3 failed iui’s (including 1 involving a Starbucks bathroom) & 2 failed ivf’s! Happy #NIAW!

#sharehope i know theres sunshine behind the rain, i know theres good times behind the pain. i close my eyes and i can see a better day.

It’s National #Infertility Week, 1 in 8 couples struggle with #infertility, so if you or someone you love does, stand up and #sharehope.

#sharehope Happiness can feel like the world goes round but the minute your monthly cycle arrives it feels like the world has ended.

#sharehope can you believe it? even after all the let downs for almost a decade…I STILL HAVE HOPE :)

#sharehope finally thought after 8 1/2 years that I was finally pregnant :..( Just got my period. This is so hard :(

Infertility Issues: The quest to try & get knocked up… despite the universe’s efforts to knock you down. #NIAW #sharehope #infertility

dealing with this has taken such a toll on me physically and emotionally, but I can’t give up this dream of mine #sharehope

everybody feels a broken heart only mine seems to be intensified when thinking of wanting a miracle baby. #sharehope

Once you choose hope, anything’s possible. – Christopher Reeve #ShareHope #NIAW

It is estimated that 30-40% of women with endometriosis may have difficulties in becoming pregnant, I’m one of them. #sharehope

@clearpassage #sharehope As I read many others who are like me it makes me feel so sad to know all the heartache we go through together :.(

Saw so many cute babies & kids @ WDW yesterday, made my uterus ache. Cant wait 4 an excuse to dye Easter eggs again! #sharehope

#sharehope TTC for 8 1/2 years, 1 miscarriage, 2 adopted children…and yet I am so beyond blessed and thankful :)

After miscarrying near Easter last year, I’ve found #hope & peace in unexpected, remarkable ways. Blog Post #sharehope

Been laying on my back over an hour, think that’s long enough to get the boys swimming the right way? #sharehope #NIAW #Infertility

Family Is Relative: Your definition of family is not necessarily mine, but respect is universal.” #Infertility #sharehope

AWWW My niece and nephew were praying that I could get pregnant and they each were begging God for a boy or a girl! #sharehope

To see more minority women (and men!) spreading the word about #infertility has made my heart swell! #sharehope

can’t believe how many women go through what I go through. We are all in this 2gether, wanting hope, wanting a baby! To us! #sharehope #NIAW

Today I got the support of my Congressman for the IF tax credit bill that’s coming soon and he’s willing to co-sponsor. #sharehope #NIAW

National #Infertility Awareness Week has given me the confidence to speak out for this community #ShareHope #NIAW

Refuse to despair over past defeats. Eventually,I Jewels, will overcome my defeat! #sharehope

I could be a mom. my body just doesn’t know it yet. She’ll catch up sooner or later. #niaw #sharehope

My brother w/cancer never gave up hope, I gave my stem-cells & gave him life. Im not giving up on Hope to be a mom! #sharehope

@clearpassage i don’t have unexplained infertility. everyone else just has unexplained fertility. #sharehope #niaw

If it wasn’t for infertility, I would have never gone to college. #sharehope #NIAW @clearpassage

“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”- Thomas Edison #sharehope

Infertility can be hard to go through even for couples in a solid relationship. Talk to each other. Seek therapy if needed #sharehope #NIAW

Infertility isn’t for the weak or meek! It makes you so much stronger than you ever thought you could be. #sharehope #NIAW

I am so glad that even if it is a ridiculous thing to do to for TTC my husband is so willing! Love you! #sharehope

Infertility is a heart-wrenching, faith-questioning, relationship-testing, life-altering experience #sharehope @clearpassage

Believe it or not I wouldn’t take my #infertility back. It’s made me the stronger person I am today #ShareHope #NIAW

Hope is such a strong word – it is a feeling that something desirable is likely to happen. I have hope for all of us TTC #sharehope #NIAW

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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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Clear Passage Therapies Honors National Infertility Awareness Week: Launches New Blog

October 23, 2008 Clear Passage Physical Therapy 2 comments
Belinda Wurn, PT, Clinical DirectorBelinda Wurn, PT, Clinical Director

Gainesville, FL (PRWEB) October 23, 2008 — Clear Passage Therapies®, a recognized leader in non-surgical treatment for female infertility, launches the new Clear Passage blog this week in honor of National Infertility Awareness Week.

Clinical Director, Belinda Wurn, says, “We hope this blog will become a resource for people to discuss and share advice on infertility, adhesions, and related health issues.”

According to the National Center for Health Statistics, an estimated six million women in the US experience infertility, and that number is growing. Ovulation problems account for a big part of female infertility; warning signs include irregular or absent menstruation. Adhesions and blocked fallopian tubes are also major causes of infertility. Fallopian tubes can become blocked by adhesions after surgery, trauma, infection, or inflammation.

Adhesions are a by-product of the healing process. Surgery (c-section, D&C, or other pelvic or abdominal surgery), trauma (auto accident, a fall, physical or sexual abuse), infection (bladder or yeast), and inflammation (endometriosis, pelvic inflammatory disease, or STD) can all cause adhesions to form in the female reproductive organs. After they attach and grow, they can restrict normal body function and cause pain and dysfunction, including nearly half of all female infertility.

“Our blog will highlight adhesions and infertility, as well as pain and dysfunction,” says Wurn. “We plan to offer educational podcasts, videos, and polls. Most importantly, bloggers will be able to post comments for discussion.”

Wurn believes the blog can play a pivotal role in helping women discuss important medical concerns. She states, “Twenty years ago, my body was left scared and in pain after surgery and radiation therapy for cervical cancer. I wish a forum like this had existed then where I could speak with other women and experts about the pain and sexual dysfunction I experienced.” Unable to find treatment to relieve her pain, Belinda and her husband, Larry, designed a manual physical therapy protocol that eventually helped her recover.

The Wurns are currently co-authoring a book, Miracle Moms, Better Sex, Less Pain, that examines their non-surgical manual physical therapy (Wurn Technique). The therapy has been shown to reduce adhesions, decrease pain, and restore function in peer-reviewed medical journals. It has proven effective for many people without the risks or side effects of surgery or drugs. It can be used as a stand-alone treatment or in conjunction with other infertility treatments.

The book will be published this winter and includes research gynecologist, Richard King, MD, as a co-author. The authors plan to provide the table of contents at the blog to open discussions with their readers on important topics. A free e-book excerpt from the book will also be available soon at clearpassage.com.

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