Overview
A bowel obstruction is a blockage in the intestines that prevents food, fluids, and gas from moving normally through the digestive tract. It can occur in either the small intestine or the large intestine (colon) and may be partial or complete.
Why Choose Clear Passage®
The Clear Passage® Approach is a very site-specific manual therapy pioneered by our founder as a result of decades of study and investigation into reducing adhesions non-surgically. Our work has been shown to reduce adhesions and reverse partial and even total bowel obstructions without resorting to surgery that so often creates more adhesions. Unique in the world, this highly researched, well-documented therapy is unlike any other non-surgical therapy we know of. Our non-surgical techniques focus on reducing or eliminating adhesions by dissolving internal bonds (crosslinks) that bind collagen fibers together, at the very core of adhesions.
Clear Passage® Therapy has been credited with saving lives and returning normal lifestyles to many people, including those who suffer from recurring bowel obstructions. Our highly trained therapists have had hundreds of successes reversing or eliminating bowel obstructions by decreasing adhesions that formed due to a prior surgery or other cause. A large surgeon-authored study published in the World Journal of Gastroenterology shows the Clear Passage® Approach reduced recurrent bowel obstructions by fifteen times the norm (no therapy). Our goal is to break the repetitive “adhesion-obstruction-surgery” cycle that many of our patients describe as their life before Clear Passage®.
Common Symptoms
- Nausea and vomiting
- Abdominal pain or cramping
- Abdominal bloating or swelling
- Nausea and vomiting
- Constipation or inability to pass gas
- Loss of appetite
- Abdominal tenderness
- Distension (visibly enlarged abdomen
- Severe dehydration
- Stringy stool*
*One of the lesser-known indicators of an imminent bowel blockage is the appearance of a pencil-thin stool.
BM is sometimes referred to as stringy stool. This often overlooked symptom often suggests a partial obstruction, allowing only a narrow passage for stool to pass.
