GAINESVILLE, Fla., March 4, 2008 /PRNewswire/ — Painful sex has afflicted half the women in the US, but recent scientific studies show relief may be in sight for many women.

Two recent published studies show that a manual physical therapy that feels like a deep massage, the Wurn Technique, reduced or eliminated intercourse pain in up to 96% of the women.

The treatment uses neither drugs nor surgery. Physical therapist Belinda Wurn says, “We believe tiny adhesions form on the vaginal walls, or deep within the urogenital organs. This therapy appears to detach those adhesions strand by strand, decreasing pain and increasing function.”

American Family Physician and Obstetrics and Gynecology indicated that 46% to 60% of sexually active US women suffer, or have suffered, from painful intercourse. However, very few medical approaches address the condition.

“Until now, our medical toolbox has been extremely limited in treating intercourse pain,” said research gynecologist Richard King, MD. “Pain relievers and desensitizing agents offer a poor solution for this common and debilitating condition.”

Citations in Fertility and Sterility and Medscape General Medicine showed significantly decreased or eliminated intercourse pain for women with endometriosis and for those in the general population after they received the new therapy.

Two related studies showed that the therapy increased sexual function in several areas, including desire, arousal, lubrication, and orgasm in most study participants. In other studies, the therapy increased pregnancies in women diagnosed infertile.

Belinda and her husband, massage therapist Larry Wurn, developed the patent-protected therapy, called the Wurn Technique over the last 20 years. Initially developed to address pain Belinda experienced after pelvic cancer and surgery, the therapy can be completed in three to five days at Clear Passage Therapies ® clinics in several US locations.

Media contact: Larry Wurn 352-336-1433 or cptherapy(at)aol.com

GAINESVILLE, Florida, February 18, 2008/PRNewswire/ — A study published in Alternative Therapies In Health and Medicine (Feb, 2008) reports that blocked fallopian tubes can be opened without surgery, enabling infertile women to become pregnant naturally.

Authors of the study “Treating Fallopian Tube Occlusion with a Manual Pelvic Physical Therapy,” became curious after a pilot study published in Fertility and Sterility (9/06) showed the treatment returned fertility in women with blocked and swollen tubes.

The non-invasive treatment developed by Clear Passage Therapies® (CPT) involves a unique protocol of manual physical therapy techniques that can be completed at any CPT clinic in one week.

According to the study, CPT’s non-surgical treatment opened tubes in 61% of women with totally blocked fallopian tubes. Without the treatment their chances for pregnancy would have been available only through surgery or in-vitro fertilization (IVF). Of the successful participants, 53% conceived naturally after the non-surgical treatment.

“I was amazed after therapy to learn my only tube was open, and I became pregnant naturally,” said Jennifer Kennedy, a CPT patient. Before therapy, one of her tubes had been removed during emergency surgery, and her remaining tube was totally blocked and swollen. “We wanted a family, but I wanted to avoid more surgery if possible, so I tried CPT. Since therapy, we have since been blessed with three beautiful children – naturally,” said Kennedy.

According to research gynecologist and former Chief of Staff of North Florida Regional Medical Center, Richard King, M.D., “This therapy has shown remarkable results in several areas and is a natural adjunct to gynecologic care.”

Larry Wurn, Clinical Research Director, founded CPT with his wife, Belinda, a physical therapist of 30 years. In 1987, Belinda developed chronic pain after surgery for pelvic cancer. The work they developed relieved her pain. When they used it on patients, women who were diagnosed infertile began having babies naturally.

A surprising side-effect of the work was increased orgasms. Many women reported improved sexual function including increased desire and orgasm, and less intercourse pain after receiving the therapy, according to two other published medical citations (Fertility & Sterility, Medscape General Medicine).

“These initial results are very encouraging,” said the Wurns. “Many physicians are impressed that a non-surgical therapy (Wurn Technique™) can be effective treating pain or infertility.”

For interviews with physicians, therapists, or patients, contact Larry Wurn 352 336-1433 or cptherapy(at) aol.com

New Orleans, LA., November 2, 2006/PRNewswire/ — Scientists at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) reported encouraging findings on a new treatment for endometriosis pain using a pelvic physical therapy that feels like a deep massage. Until now, the primary treatments for endometriosis pain have involved either surgery or drugs.

The manual physical therapy (Wurn Technique®) decreased pain throughout the menstrual cycle. Relief continued six weeks after therapy, according to an abstract published in Fertility and Sterility (9/2006). A related abstract in the same issue reported the therapy significantly decreased dyspareunia (intercourse pain) and improved sexual function for women with endometriosis.

“Endometriosis can cause severe pain, disrupt lifestyle and contribute to infertility for millions of women worldwide. Unfortunately, there is no known cure,” said co-author, research gynecologist Richard King, former Chief of Staff of North Florida Regional Medical Center in Gainesville, Florida.

Endometriosis is thought to occur in about 10% of adult females, with a higher incidence among infertile women. In an earlier published study (Medscape General Medicine, 6/2004), the therapy improved pregnancy rates for patients undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF) and appeared to improve natural fertility rates.

The treatment is of interest because it decreased pain without the risks associated with surgery or pharmaceuticals. The manual therapy “feels similar to a deep massage, but the mechanism is totally different,” according to author, physical therapist Belinda Wurn. “We are encouraged by the results and will expand this study.”

Wurn began developing the treatment with her husband in 1987 to help her recover from painful adhesions following pelvic surgery.  Her spouse and co-author, Larry Wurn says, “The therapy appears to break adhesive crosslinks that form when a patient heals from injury, infection, surgery or inflammation.”

“Adhesions are commonly associated with endometriosis and are implicated in many chronic pain conditions,” explains Dr. King. “This therapy is a natural adjunct to gynecologic care and should be considered by physicians whose patients have endometriosis, dyspareunia, or chronic pain.”

Media contact: Larry Wurn 352-336-1433 or cptherapy(at)aol.com

New Orleans, LA., November 2, 2006/PRNewswire/ — Scientists at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) reported that therapists were able to open totally blocked fallopian tubes using a new pelvic physical therapy that feels similar to a deep massage. Previously, surgery was the only treatment option for women with blocked fallopian tubes.

The manual treatment (Wurn Technique®) opened blocked fallopian tubes in several women, some of whom conceived naturally after the therapy, according to the study abstract published in Fertility and Sterility (9/2006).

The abstract examined eight women with totally blocked fallopian tubes. One patient had only one tube and it was blocked, but had a natural pregnancy and childbirth after receiving the therapy. Half of the women had at least one tube opened by the therapy; half of those became pregnant naturally and gave birth.

The study cases were further complicated by a condition known as hydrosalpinx. Not only were the tubes blocked, but they were filled with a liquid that is considered toxic to embryos.

“Hydrosalpinx is generally thought to render a fallopian tube useless and may decrease the chance for successful in vitro fertilization (IVF),” said co-author Mark Kan, MD, reproductive endocrinologist at the Newport Fertility Center in Newport Beach, CA. “The therapy opened several affected tubes, and apparently returned function to some of them.”

“While this study was small, the results are clear,” said physical therapist Belinda Wurn who developed the technique with her husband, massage therapist Larry Wurn. “A diagnostic test clearly shows whether either tube has opened. The full term pregnancies indicate a return of function.”

Research gynecologist and former Chief of Staff at North Florida Regional Medical Center, Richard King, MD, called the results remarkable. “The therapy is a natural adjunct to gynecologic care,” King says.

The therapists began developing the technique in 1987 to treat author Belinda Wurn’s pelvic pain after cancer and surgery. It is now used to treat female infertility, endometriosis pain and female sexual dysfunction (including painful intercourse). The therapy is available at Clear Passage Therapies® clinics throughout the United States.

Media contact: Larry Wurn 352-336-1433 or cptherapy(at)aol.com

Gainesville, FL, June 19, 2006/PRNewswire/ – Physical therapists researching a non-surgical infertility treatment report 167 babies born or presently expected to infertile women who received the new therapy.

“Passing 150 births is a real milestone for us, but we feel this is only the beginning,” said co-developer and physical therapist Belinda Wurn. “It is gratifying to see success in a large variety of infertility diagnoses, and that positive results seem to last for years.”

“One of my fallopian tubes had been surgically removed and the other was completely blocked, leaving me with no chance for a natural pregnancy,” said one patient to Wurn. “It was an amazing feeling when I learned my tube was open after therapy, and even more amazing when I became pregnant naturally. I have since been blessed with three healthy babies.”

The hands-on physical therapy was first examined in two studies published in the peer reviewed medical journal Medscape General Medicine (6/04). The first study examined the ability of the therapy to help infertile women conceive naturally. After therapy, 71% of the participants had a natural pregnancy and most had full-term births.

The second study showed that women who received the therapy before IVF had a 67% clinical pregnancy rate in embryos transferred after therapy – significantly higher than the 41% control group (P<.001). Average duration of infertility before therapy in the studies was five years.

“Both of my IVF transfers before therapy were unsuccessful,” said another patient to therapist Mandy Roscow, MPT. “I had endometriosis and hoped this therapy would prepare my body to be more successful in my next transfer. Apparently it did — I became pregnant in my first IVF after therapy and now have beautiful twins!”

The new treatment is considered low risk, as it uses no drugs or surgery, according to co-developer Larry Wurn. The therapy, known as the Wurn Technique®, is used to treat infertility and pelvic and intercourse pain. It is available exclusively at several Clear Passage Therapies® clinics from New York to California. The 20-hour program can be completed in as little as five days.

Media contact: Larry Wurn, 352-336-1433 or cptherapy(at)aol.com

Gainesville, FL, June 6, 2006/PRNewswire/ – Researchers investigating a treatment for female infertility were surprised when participants reported unusual side effects – increased orgasms and sexual desire.

“The improved sexual function occurred in women who reported low libido, painful intercourse, and other sexual issues before therapy,” said gynecologist Richard King. “We were pleased to find that in addition to helping women conceive, this therapy has a beneficial side effect.”

King and his research team were investigating a pelvic physical therapy treatment for female infertility, the Wurn Technique®. Then patients began reporting increased desire, decreased pain with intercourse, and “orgasms like I’ve never had in my life” to the research team weeks and months after therapy.

“After years of experiencing an almost complete lack of interest in sex, I now have desires and responses unlike anything I’ve experienced in my lifetime,” reported one forty year-old woman to a member of the research team. “My husband and I feel like newlyweds.”

Based on the unexpected findings, the researchers conducted a study on the ability of therapy to improve female sexual function. Results of the study [“Medscape General Medicine” - 12/04] showed 78% of women experienced increased desire (libido), 56% reported increased orgasms, and 96% reported decreased pain with intercourse.

“Before therapy, I wasn’t interested in sex, and I had difficulty experiencing orgasms. I had come to believe that this was the way things were supposed to be. After therapy, I began to have deep, intense orgasms during intercourse,” said another study participant to Mandy Roscow, MPT, one of the therapists.

In the initial study the hands-on physical therapy technique, which breaks down pelvic adhesions, was shown to improve in vitro fertilization (IVF) success rates, and natural pregnancy rates in infertile women. The study was published in the peer-reviewed journal Medscape General Medicine (6/04).

Note to editors: Dr. King, research participants, therapists available for interviews. Media contact is Larry Wurn, 352-336-1433 or cptherapy(at)aol.com.

Over a third of US women surveyed suffer from painful intercourse, yet remarkably, most never tell their doctors. Two studies published in Obstetrics and Gynecology report that between 33% and 46% of women surveyed have persistent pain with intercourse. Suffering in silence, most of these women also reported decreased sexual activity or other adverse effects on their relationships, due to physical pain during intimacy.

Women with dyspareunia (painful intercourse) may also experience pain in the lower back, hip, buttocks and groin. Some are unable to sit for long periods of time, have frequent bladder infections, or suffer from digestive or bowel problems. Many report a decreased desire to engage in sexual activity, inability to have an orgasm, and problems trying to conceive.

Men often feel powerless in helping their partner deal with these difficult issues. Unable to help relieve the pain, many men become confused, depressed and deeply frustrated that their touch causes their partner pain.

Some women complain that traditional dyspareunia treatments — medication, lubricants or psychological counseling — address symptoms, but not the cause of the pain. However, a recently published study indicates that a more permanent answer may be as simple as “the right touch.”

Seventeen years ago, massage therapist Larry Wurn was frustrated trying to find a cure for his wife’s pelvic pain. Belinda Wurn had to resign as Associate Professor of Physical Therapy at the University of Florida due to the pain she experienced after pelvic surgery. That’s when the couple began to develop a non-invasive hands-on therapy to treat Belinda’s pelvic pain. The therapy, a slow and deep bodywork focused on the areas of pain, has evolved over the years into a treatment for intercourse pain and related disorders.

The Wurn Technique® (patent pending) is a manual physical therapy without the drugs often associated with medical techniques. In a recently published peer reviewed study, it relieved or eliminated intercourse pain in 96% of the women treated, and showed statistically significant improvements in all six major areas of sexual function: (desire, arousal, lubrication, orgasm, satisfaction, and pain). Of the 23 women who received the therapy, 78% reported increased desire and 56% reported increased orgasms on their post treatment study surveys.

According to the Wurns, most patients begin to notice pain relief within the first few hours of therapy. By the end of the one-week program (available at Clear Passage Therapies® clinics) pain significantly decreased or was eliminated in all but one study patient.

In addition to decreasing intercourse pain and improving orgasms, peer reviewed published studies show increased pregnancies in women diagnosed infertile, after this therapy.

About Clear Passage:

Clear Passage Therapies® has clinics in California, Florida, and Iowa. Most patients fly in for the one-week course of therapy. Information is available at http://www.clearpassage.com/ or toll free at 1-866-222-9437.

Belinda Wurn, PT graduated summa cum laude with a B.S. in physical therapy from the University of Florida in 1975. She and her husband, massage therapist Larry Wurn, owned a network of chronic pain clinics as they developed their work treating pelvic pain and female infertility. Belinda is considered an expert in causes and treatments of various types of sexual dysfunction including decreased orgasm, desire, arousal, lubrication and satisfaction and painful intercourse. She has co-authored studies about improving natural and IVF (in vitro fertilization) pregnancy rates in women diagnosed infertile.

Larry Wurn, LMT studied manual therapy with several recognized experts in manual therapy to help treat Belinda for pain and dysfunction following surgery and pelvic radiation. Prior to their development, Belinda had been unable to find relief with traditional medical care. As Larry progressed in his education, he and Belinda developed new techniques to help relieve pain and improve reproductive function, including fertility.

Research studies: Belinda and Larry were joined by scientists and research physicians who became fascinated with the results they saw with this new therapy. To date, the group has published three studies in WebMD’s internationally recognized peer-reviewed journal, Medscape General Medicine. These studies were distributed to 2.5 million physician subscribers in 249 countries and were recently accepted into the US Library of Medicine.

GAINESVILLE, Fla., Dec. 14, 2004 /PRNewswire/ — In a study published today in Medscape General Medicine, Ob/Gyn & Women’s Health, researchers reported that a manual physical therapy technique is highly effective in increasing orgasm intensity and frequency and reducing painful intercourse in women.

The therapy, known as the Wurn Technique(R), is a new, patent-protected series of manual physical therapy and massage techniques designed to reduce adhesions and mechanical factors that cause pain or dysfunction. No drugs or surgery are involved.

Study participants were 23 women who reported painful intercourse and/or difficulty or inability to orgasm. According to the study, the therapy significantly increased orgasm in 56% and reduced intercourse pain in 96% of the women. Statistically significant improvements were noted in all six major areas (desire [libido], arousal, lubrication, orgasm, satisfaction, and pain) on a standardized test of female sexual dysfunction.

Co-developer Belinda Wurn, PT, says, “Adhesions can form anywhere in the female reproductive tract, decreasing sensation and causing pain. Our therapy frees the tissues from these adhesive constraints, restoring normal function and allowing women to return to a healthy sex life.”

The study is the third to be published on the Wurn Technique(R) in Medscape General Medicine, Ob/Gyn & Women’s Health this year. Two prior studies, published in June, reported the therapy’s effectiveness in helping infertile women to conceive. In the first study, natural pregnancy occurred in 71% of infertile women within one year of treatment. The second study showed that women who used the therapy within 15 months prior to in vitro fertilization (IVF) increased their chances for IVF pregnancy by 63%.

CONTACT: Larry Wurn, Clear Passage Therapies, Inc. 352-336-1433 or cptherapy(at)aol.com

GAINESVILLE, Fla., Sept. 27, 2004 /PRNewswire/ — Struggling with years of infertility can be stressful and heartbreaking. But the battle is over for three friends who credit their success to a new “fertility massage.”

Alexandra, Angie, and Cathleen all attribute their children to a patent protected massage therapy called the Wurn Technique(R). The therapy, which uses no drugs or surgery, appears to decrease adhesions and scar tissue that cause half of all female infertility, according to physical therapist Belinda Wurn, co-developer.

“We use our hands to find adhered areas in and around a woman’s reproductive organs,” said Belinda Wurn. “We apply a sophisticated ‘massage’ to free the reproductive tissues from adhesions that prevent proper function and cause infertility.”

The therapy’s effectiveness was recently chronicled in Medscape General Medicine, Ob/Gyn & Women’s Health. The peer-reviewed journal reported 71% of infertile women conceived within one year after the treatments without any further medical or surgical intervention. A second study followed women who received in vitro fertilization (IVF) transfer after therapy. Two-thirds (67%) of the transfers resulted in pregnancy, beating the 41% national average reported by the CDC. But for the three friends, pregnancy came without surgical intervention.

Alexandra was the first of the three friends to discover the therapy’s success. With one blocked fallopian tube, and the other tube scarred and adhered from a C-section, her physician told her it was unlikely she would ever conceive again. Yet, she has had two children since therapy and is now pregnant again. “I recommended the therapy to my friend Angie who had been struggling with infertility for so long,” Alexandra said.

Angie was infertile for five years, with a history of endometriosis, miscarriages and seven failed intrauterine inseminations (IUI). But after receiving the new therapy, Angie also conceived naturally, and gave birth to a beautiful baby girl. “I know that the therapy is what my body needed to be successful,” Angie said. She called her friend, Cathleen.

Cathleen was given a 5% chance of ever becoming pregnant, even with IVF. Her tubes were scarred and her fimbriae were clubbed with adhesions. After five years of infertility, and four IVF attempts, she was crushed. She had never had a single pregnancy. “Angie bugged me to try the therapy so I finally went. A few months after therapy, to my utter amazement, I was pregnant,” Cathleen said. Cathleen also gave birth to a little girl.

“We are very excited about the results we are seeing with our therapy. At least 60 babies have already been born or are presently expected by women who were diagnosed infertile,” said massage therapist Larry Wurn, co-developer of the Wurn Technique and Director of Clinical Studies at Clear Passage Therapies.

GAINESVILLE, Fla., June 28, 2004 /PRNewswire/ — A unique new massage and physical therapy technique greatly increased pregnancy rates in infertile women, according to two studies reported in the June 18, 2004 issue of Medscape General Medicine, Ob/Gyn & Women’s Health. The researchers reported that the Wurn Technique(R) (patent pending) is highly effective at increasing fertility in both natural conception and in vitro fertilization (IVF). The therapy uses neither drugs nor surgery.

The natural fertility study reported a 71% (10/14) pregnancy success rate within one year of receiving the new treatment. Nine of the ten women (90%) who conceived had a full-term delivery.

A second study found that therapy significantly increased clinical pregnancy rates when performed within 15 months before in vitro fertilization (IVF). Two-thirds (67%) of women who received the non-surgical therapy became pregnant with their next IVF transfer, versus the 41% national average. The study also showed a 57% pregnancy rate among women aged 41 or older. The average duration of infertility for patients in both studies was five years.

“The therapy appears to improve fertility in women with a wide array of unexplained or adhesion-related infertility,” said co-author Richard King, MD, an independent gynecologist and research physician. “Many of the subjects had histories including prior infection, inflammation, surgery or trauma.”

In the pre-IVF study, 19 of 25 women (76%) reported pregnancy and 15 (60%) gave birth or are still pregnant. The study compared the rate of pregnancy per embryo transfer of fresh, non-donor eggs with the national age-adjusted averages reported by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Clinical pregnancies were documented in 22 of 33 embryo transfers (67%), a highly statistically significant difference in favor of the women who received the therapy prior to transfer.

“None of the patients in either study reported any observable complications or adverse side effects,” said Belinda Wurn, physical therapist, who developed the technique with her husband, massage therapist Larry Wurn. “In fact, nearly all patients reported decreased pain, and anecdotal evidence suggests increased sexual arousal, following therapy.”

“We feel this work will be a major adjunct to regular gynecologic care and will increase success rates for fertility physicians worldwide,” Larry Wurn said.

Media contact: Larry Wurn, 352-336-1433 or cptherapy(at)aol.com