Adhesions in abdomen after surgery

Click here to download the free ebook, chapter 16  “Surgical Adhesions, Small Bowel Obstructions” from “Miracle Moms.” Includes theory, research, and heart-warming stories from individuals struggling with surgical adhesion pain and small bowel obstructions.
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“Miracle Moms, Better Sex, Less Pain” by Larry and Belinda Wurn with Richard King, MD is available now at amazon.com (Med-Art Press). Foreword by New York Times best-selling author Christiane Northrup, MD  and endorsed by physicians from Harvard, Columbia, Northwestern, and other fine professionals.

Dr. Jacques Moritz, Director of Endoscopy Section and Division of Gynecology, St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center says, “As a gynecological surgeon I have seen first hand what happens after I operate on patients. As much as I try to prevent adhesions I know that most patients after surgery are going to develop some form of adhesive disease. In the past treatment for adhesions has been even more surgery which caused even more adhesions. Now with the amazing “Clear Passage” technique patients have a safe and effective alternative to surgery. ”

According to a large study by Anesthesiology (2007), roughly 32% of women who undergo hysterectomies will experience chronic pelvic pain that lasts for over a year after hysterectomies. Many women also report painful intercourse and sexual dysfunction, such as poor lubrication or decreased desire, after their hysterectomies.

In a study conducted by the  Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology, scientists performed second-look surgery on women who reported chronic pain after their hysterectomy. One of their common findings was adhesions. Adhesions are filmy bands of collagen that form as an integral part of the healing process in the body. Adhesions enable the tissues of the body to seal after a hysterectomy. But these adhesions can also bind other organs, tissues, and structures together, causing uncomfortable pain and pulling.

Belinda Wurn, the founder of Clear Passage Therapies, experienced the devastating affects of adhesions herself when she underwent treatment for cervical cancer. A portion of her cervix was removed and she received a grueling regimen of radiation therapy. Although medical intervention saved her life, the surgery and radiation therapy caused adhesions to form. Within a year, Belinda experienced a constant pulling sensation that gradually developed into chronic pelvic pain and sexual dysfunction.

Belinda and her husband, Larry, sought medical help, but all doctors could offer her was a repeat surgery. Belinda and Larry then traveled the world, learning new manual physical therapy techniques to reduce Belinda’s pain. Her pain gradually decreased and she eventually found herself free from pain.

Belinda and Larry decided to utilize their new knowledge and opened Clear Passage Therapies to help women who experienced pain and dysfunction due to adhesions, including women who underwent hysterectomies. You can read the story of a former patient, Katrina, who underwent a partial hysterectomy and later experienced adhesions that blocked her small bowels. If you would like to learn more about our treatment for pain and dysfunction after hysterectomies, please visit our post-surgical pain page.

Our upcoming book, Miracle Moms, Better Sex, Less Pain, will discuss how manual physical therapy can address a host of problems caused by adhesions. The book is divided into three sections: fertility, sexual dysfunction, and chronic pain. One of our main topics in the chronic pain section is post-surgical pain. In fact, we have so much to say about it that we have devoted an entire chapter to it!

We care deeply about this topic because the conventional cure for post-surgical pain is more surgery! Men and women deserve to know there is a treatment that can free them from an endless cycle of surgeries.

If a patient’s surgery was completed without complications, but the patient still finds themselves in pain after six months, adhesions are the likely culprit. In the post-surgical pain chapter, we discuss how and why adhesions form after surgery. We then explain how adhesions can draw previously mobile structures together, cause inflammation, create tension, and cause pain.

In the chapter, we also share the stories of patients who have had the awful experience of cyclical surgery. One such patient is Ginny, who had a bowel obstruction removed surgically. After the surgery, adhesions quickly formed again, causing more bowel obstructions, severe abdominal pain, and neck and back pain. Ginny told us, “I needed surgery to reduce the adhesions and relieve my pain, but the surgeries would cause more adhesions to form, necessitating more surgeries.” After eight surgeries, Ginny knew she needed to find a non-invasive way to remove adhesions. When she heard about our clinic, she started attending twice a week. Ginny reported, “Before long, I stopped experiencing pain n my bowels, neck and back. Things in life that most people take for granted, but that had been denied to me for so long slowly began to return. I can still remember the first day I was finally able to have a bowel movement without pain or laxatives.”

Our treatment, which focuses on removing adhesions with manual physical therapy techniques, has helped many people like Ginny. Ginny’s full story, along with the stories of 75 former CPT patients, will be featured in our book, Miracle Moms, Better Sex, Less Pain. If you would like to read more about how adhesions may be affecting your health, please visit our adhesions page.