New Infertility Treatment Receives Patent Protection

The investigating team was encouraged after initial studies showed a fifty percent success rate treating infertile women with a "hands on" treatment protocol. "With such a high preliminary success rate, we decided to conduct further research," said physical therapist Belinda Wurn.

The group was recently granted patent protection for the technique. Now, the group has reported another pregnancy.

"Staci had a history of three years of infertility, prior to therapy," said massage therapist Larry Wurn, co-director of Clear Passage Therapies. "Her physician found no known cause, but she fit the profile we were looking for, a history of either surgery, inflammation or trauma. About half of all infertile women fit this profile," Wurn said.

A massage therapist herself, Staci flew three thousand miles to spend a week receiving the treatment. Her therapy consisted of ten hours of massage and physical therapy treatment. Three months later, she discovered she was pregnant.

"I wasn't really that surprised," said Staci, "When the gynecologists explained about adhesions and the fact that organs can get stuck or adhered anywhere in the reproductive tract, it made a lot of sense," she said. "In my own experience, I am used to freeing up tight, shortened muscles in my clients. It doesn't take much to make the transition to treating internal adhesions in organs."

The patent protected therapy, called the WURN Technique, involves no surgery or drugs. "Treatment consists of gentle, highly specific manual pressures over restricted areas," Wurn says.

"Medical literature suggests that 80 percent of abdominal and gynecologic surgeries cause adhesions," explains Marvin Heuer, MD, President of Florida Medical and Research Institute, and Research Director for the group. "Adhesions may form after inflammation such as bladder or yeast infections, endometriosis or pelvic inflammatory disease. They may also form after trauma, such as back, hip or tailbone injury."

"Medical literature indicates that adhesions are a direct or contributing cause of infertility in about 40 percent of infertile women. In America, this represents over two million women," Heuer explains.

Richard King, MD, a gynecologist with the research group, helped design the present clinical trials. "If ongoing studies continue to produce results," he says, "there are positive implications for infertile women and patients with pain or dysfunction due to adhesions."

According to Dr. Heuer, "Patients appear to appreciate the more natural approach with this therapy. Since treatment is without surgery or drugs, there is a significant decrease in side effects and complications. The main side effect appears to be decreased pain. One surprising side effect appears to be increased orgasm, in some women."

The therapists developed their treatment after study in America and France. Information is available at http://www.clearpassage.com or by phone (toll free) 1-866-BABYHERE.