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Wurn Technique® Opens Blocked Fallopian Tubes

Published studies show tubes opened with full-term pregnancies

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Blocked Fallopian Tubes X-Rays Reviewed by a Therapist.Belinda Wurn, PT studies before and after x-rays of a patient who came to a Clear Passage clinic after being diagnosed by her physician with two severely blocked fallopian tubes. Her physician reported that one tube cleared totally and the other improved measurably, after therapy.

Clear Passage Therapies ® was born when we discovered that we could open blocked fallopian tubes without drugs or surgery. Many people find the story of this discovery fascinating. Please visit our history page if you are interested in learning more.

In a study published in the peer-reviewed medical journal Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine (2008)1 and summarized for gynecologists in their professional journal Contemporary Ob/Gyn (April, 2008),2 our non-surgical therapy achieved a 61% success rate opening blocked fallopian tubes in women with totally blocked tubes (the most challenging of our patients). That rate rivals or exceeds surgical success rates, without the risks or cost of surgery. Successes in the published study of opening blocked fallopian tubes included women with

The results of our therapy appear to last for years, for many clients who come to us with blocked fallopian tubes. Several women have had two or more natural full-term pregnancies after their single (20-hour) therapy session here. This contrasts with a study in Human Reproduction,3 which showed that even in a minimally invasive surgery, 81% of tubes that were opened surgically closed again within six months, in women whose blockage was proximal (near the uterus, thus easier to access than distal blockage). * See our success rates  for ongoing results treating blocked fallopian tubes and other causes of female infertility. 

Results Opening Blocked Tubes

Blocked tubes were opened in 61% of women and 50% of women with hydrosalpinx after therapy.

Clear Passage Therapies® is committed to fact and scientific inquiry. Our recently published 'blocked tubes study'1 is the result of nearly two decades of research conducted under the direction and oversight of independent research scientists and physicians. This therapy has been shown to open tubes and return the ability to conceive naturally for women with hydrosalpinx and blocked fallopian tubes regardless of the location of the blockage.  Therapy opened fallopian tubes in 61% of the women who came to us with total tubal occlusion (completely blocked tubes)  and 53% of those had a natural intrauterine pregnancy (some women also went on to become pregnant again after their first child and have had more than one child since therapy). 1 Therapy also opened blocked tubes with hydrosalpinx 4 and half of those women became pregnant naturally via the tube that previously had a hydrosalpinx.

Locations of Blockage

Proximal blocked fallopian tube with adhesionsProximal blocked fallopian tube with adhesions

Fallopian tube blockage can occur anywhere within the tube. Surgery to open fallopian tubes blocked at their entrance into the uterus is considered the least invasive surgical approach to open blocked fallopian tubes. Even so, the tubes have been shown to close again in 81% of cases after surgery to open fallopian tubes blocked in this area.3

In the study published in Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine (Jan, 2008),1 our therapy opened tubes for 66% of the women whose blockage was proximal (near the uterus) , without surgery .

Midtubal blocked fallopian tube with adhesionsMidtubal blocked fallopian tube with adhesions

When tubes are blocked further in, they become much more difficult and complex to treat surgically. In fact, surgical correction must be done by laparoscopy, or laparotomy (open surgery). Success rates for opening tubes blocked in the middle or at the distal end (near the ovary) are much lower than surgery for proximal occlusion (near the uterus.)

In the recently published study, our unique physical therapy technique opened tubes for 40% of the women with mid-tubal occlusion (near the uterus).

Distal blocked fallopian tube with adhesionsDistal blocked fallopian tube with adhesions

The most difficult and delicate area to address surgically is the distal end of the fallopian tube, by the ovary. There, the delicate finger-like fimbriae of the fallopian tubes are subject to restriction and even “clubbing” due to infection, trauma , or prior surgery. The chances are generally considered poor for pregnancy after surgery to open tubes that are blocked distally. Nevertheless, our non-surgical therapy opened tubes for 50% of the women with distal occlusion (near the ovary), and many of the women became pregnant.

In addition, therapy opened tubes in 80% of the women with combination of any of the above three.

Hydrosalpinx with adhesionsHydrosalpinx with adhesions

We have also seen promising results in women who have a hydrosalpinx, as noted in the graph above. For more information on that, please visit our hydrosalpinx page.

Pregnancy Results

Of our successes, 53% of the patent study participants reported a natural intrauterine pregnancy within the first two years after therapy. That number has since increased, as more study patients have called us to let us know they became pregnant or had full-term pregnancies, more than two years after therapy. Both of these statistics (61% opening tubes, 53% of those becoming pregnant) are considered remarkable in a population that had no chance of natural pregnancy before therapy, and in a difficult area to treat successfully, with surgery.

Risks and Side Effects

Women who have had problems with their fallopian tubes are considered at increased risk of ectopic pregnancies (pregnancy within the tube). This is a serious condition, and any pregnancy in this group should be monitored carefully for ectopics. We are pleased that none of our successes had an ectopic. In fact, only one study participant had an ectopic. Remarkably, this ectopic occurred in a woman whose tubes did not “officially” open per her post-treatment HSG, indicating that the tube likely opened partially but not totally, after therapy.

Patients did report decreased period and intercourse pain and increased sexual function (desire, arousal, lubrication, orgasm and satisfaction) as positive side effects of therapy.

Duration of Results

Some women reported more than one pregnancy in the two years that we followed our patients after therapy. This indicates that our results appear to last. These results compare positively with surgery to open tubes, as noted in a recent medical study (below).

After surgical opening of blocked tubes, many fallopian tubes close again within a few months, presumably due to the adhesions that form after surgery. This concern was documented in a study published in Human Reproduction.3 According to the journal, after a minimally invasive surgical procedure for proximal blockage (the easiest for surgeons to repair), tubes became blocked again in 81% of patients after only six months. This apparently does not happen after our work, theoretically because it is less invasive than surgery.

Other Procedures

Many infertility procedures attempt to surgically bypass the actual cause of female infertility. Surgical techniques such as IVF, GIFT , and other artificial reproductive techniques try to bypass poor reproductive function between the ovaries and the uterus. As remarkable as these procedures are, it is unfortunate that each procedure provides only one opportunity for pregnancy.

Artificial insemination attempts to assist sperm to enter the uterus, but it is useless if there is no ‘clear passage' through the fallopian tubes for the egg and sperm to travel. Blocked fallopian tubes prevent the sperm and egg from meeting, thus preventing pregnancy.

Clear Passage Therapies®

We address the cause of many types of female infertility, including totally blocked fallopian tubes. Interestingly, it seems to make little difference if the tubes have been blocked for a year, or a decade. In short, Clear Passage therapists have been shown to open blocked fallopian tubes in about two-thirds of the women who come to us with reports of totally blocked tubes, and most of those go on to have natural, full-term pregnancies.

  1. Wurn BF, Wurn LJ, King CR, Heuer MA, Roscow AS, Hornberger K, Scharf ES. Treating Fallopian Tube Occlusion with a Manual Pelvic Physical Therapy. Altern Ther Health Med. 2008 Jan-Feb;14(1):18-23. PMID 18251317.
  2. Can noninvasive pelvic physical therapy open occluded fallopian tubes? Comtemporary Ob/Gyn, Technology, Vol. 53, April 15, 2008, p. 12.
  3. Glelcher N, Confino E, Cofrman R, et.al.  The multicentre transcervical balloon tuboplasty study: conclusions and comparison to alternative technologies. Human Reproduction. 1993; 8(8): 1264-1271.
  4. Wurn LJ, Wurn BF, Kan M, King CR, Roscow AS, Scharf ES. Treating hydrosalpinx with a manual physical therapy. Fertil Steril. 2006; 86 (Supp 2): S307. Abstract.
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What physicians say:

Learn more about therapy to open and return function to blocked fallopian tubes and hydrosalpinx in our book Miracle Moms, Better Sex, Less Pain (publication date: 9/2009).

“The ‘Wurn Technique’ in my professional opinion, is a blockbuster breakthrough both for physicians and women who have known for so long that there was something better out there for treatment of infertility. The Wurns have published their work showing significant improvement in areas of infertility caused by endometriosis, fallopian tube occlusion, and hydrosalpinx.  I am truly excited to learn about (this) therapy. I look forward to … taking your message and technique to a world so desperately in need of it.”
- Dr. Scott Miles
Board certified gynecologist and sexologist (25 years)
Medical Director, Miles Ahead Health and Wellness, Indianapolis, IN

“I am excited to see that you have studied and perfected a technique to treat adhesions, with years of experience, scientific 'backup' and case studies to prove it. This technique makes sense.”
- Leslie Mendoza Temple. MD
Medical Director, Integrative Medicine NorthShore University HealthSystem
Professor, Northwestern University Medical School

“Over the many years I have known Larry, we have shared many patients who had previously been told that they would never conceive naturally, had complete tubal obstruction, scarring or intractable pelvic pain. I have seen their work help all of these conditions, and more. Their therapy is beyond surgical intervention; it taps right into the body's inherent healing capacity. The Wurns are revolutionizing woman's health. Tried and proven, documented and studied again and again – the proof is in the results. There are children alive today who wouldn't be here without Clear Passage Therapies. I support and applaud this work.”
- Dr. Randine Lewis, L.Ac.
Founder, The Fertile Soul,
Author of The Infertility Cure and The Way of the Fertile Soul

“I don't know which is more amazing: the adventure of discovering the treatment, the published medical studies, or the dozens of 'Miracle Moms' who shared their stories of success with this 100% natural therapy." 
- Gilli Moorhawk
Author of Miracle Babies, and Meditations and Positive Thoughts for Pregnancy & Birth

“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. . . . I know it does work and recommend it to all my patients with adhesive disease.”
- Jacques Moritz, MD
Director of Endoscopy Section and Division of Gynecology,St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center
Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons