Childhood Surgery and Trauma

We Treat Pain or Problems From Childhood Surgery and Trauma

Surgery can create problems for children and young adults as the body attempts to grow around tissues that become adhered as a result of early surgery. Untreated, these problems can persist or become worse into adulthood, affecting the body for a lifetime. Severe trauma and/or surgical repair can cause scarring and adhesions to form in children, leading to pain or greatly limiting their quality of life.

Clear Passage has over two decades of experience decreasing the adhesions caused by childhood surgeries and traumas using a non-surgical, manual physio/physical therapy. We often treat severe cases of adhesions and post-trauma or post-surgical pain in adults, and in children accompanied by a parent. Studies on our work have been published in peer-reviewed U.S. and international medical journals. Complete our online Request Consultation form to receive a free phone consultation with an expert therapist and learn whether this therapy can help.

 

Childhood Surgery and Trauma Overview

It is not uncommon for infants and children to undergo surgery as a result of the repair of a congenital disorder, trauma or disease. As the body recovers from the surgery, it creates internal scars and adhesions as part of the healing process.

Ideally, the scar will grow and expand with the rest of the body as the child grows, but this does not always happen. When tightly-bound scars or adhesions persist and fail to expand fully as the body around it grows, they can create problems that can last a lifetime.

A childhood surgery can cause severe scarring and adhesions at delicate tissues. We have treated this condition in the intestines, when digestion becomes compromised – or even life threatening in the case of bowel obstructions. We have also treated adhered joints that were causing pain or that showed decreased range of motion. Our therapy has been quite successful in cases of adhesions after partial or total removal of organs and in cases of severe trauma. In all of these cases, adhesions tend to bind the structures in straitjackets with a strength of nearly 2,000 pounds per square inch, restricting their mobility and function and often causing pain.

Treatment for Childhood Surgery and Trauma (Wurn Technique)

The therapists at Clear Passage understand the physical scars that occur anywhere in the body and at any age. We have been treating the adhesions that form in infants and children for over two decades. In fact, our work began over 20 years ago when our director, Belinda Wurn, P.T., began her search for relief from her own post-surgical adhesions. In our focus on adhesions, we have treated well over a thousand patients since that time.

We use our hands to slowly peel apart adhered tissues, always working within the patient’s comfort and tolerance levels. We gently break apart the hundreds of tiny strands that comprise adhesions – powerful bonds in the complex network of the patient’s body – that are causing pain, tightness or dysfunction. Most of our post-surgical patients find that our therapy restores mobility that has not existed in their bodies for years – or ever, in the case of early surgery.

We also understand the need to treat children and adults in a ‘safe place’. We provide an atmosphere with the utmost emphasis on dignity and sensitivity. While our work is physical, we also understand the psychological issues that can naturally accompany pain, dysfunction or simply the idea that the patient feels different from everyone else. We are happy to consult and work with a patient’s physician or counselor before, during or after therapy.