What treatment is like

Treatment without surgery or drugs, a "hands-on" approach

We have helped many people with infertility, pain, or dysfunction. Our directors and instructors have spent years studying techniques and developing protocols to restore patients’ bodies to a state of balance, harmony, and increased function.

Our therapists

Our therapists have unique skills and training, unavailable anywhere else. They are screened for experience and excellent manual skills before being accepted for training. In fact, we typically accept and train less than one percent of therapists who apply. Our therapists undergo specific pre-training coursework, which can take a year or more to complete and are then required to attend our extensive on-site training at our home-office. Only therapists who pass our certification test at the end of the training period become certified Clear Passage® therapists.

Your treatment

Your treatment begins with a thorough review of your history and a (roughly one-hour) on-site physical evaluation by your evaluating therapist. In the very first session, we use our hands to locate abnormal tensions in and around the organs, muscles, connective tissues and support structures of your body. We apply gentle, specific pressure in adhered areas. This pressure is designed to reduce the adhesions that formed in your body over time, and return your structures to normal mobility, tone, and function.

Treatment sessions are individualized to you - based on your history, goals and physical evaluation. Your therapy is always one-on-one, performed by a Clear Passage® certified therapist in a private treatment room.

From the first visit, your evaluating therapist will feel and treat deeply in your body, finding areas that healed and became adhered years, or even decades ago. We find and treat the compensatory pattern of adhesions, which formed in your body due to poor posture or injury, during the decades of your life. We always work within your tolerance and comfort level. Our intent is to slowly and meticulously break down the tiny cross-links that are the building blocks of adhesions.

Patients regularly describe our therapy as a deep or profound relief, a “good hurt,” or “something my body has needed for a long time.” We often hear “you have found the area I’ve been telling my doctor(s) about for years – but they can’t find anything.”

Sometimes, you will notice a pattern of pain, such as, “when you push there, I feel it in my low back, my ovary, the base of my skull.” This tells us exactly where the “run” is in the fascial sweater that surrounds and separates all of your muscles and organs. Patients often express deep relief and joy to finally understand the pattern of pain or dysfunction that has plagued them for years.

Treatment sessions are generally scheduled in one to two-hour sessions, less 10-15 minutes per hour for paperwork and chart review. This equates to 45+ minutes per hour of uninterrupted manual therapy per hour. All of our therapists love to treat, but keeping good records of your history, response, and changing patterns during treatment is vital to your success.

Patients with pain complaints

Most patients find treatment sessions interesting, informative, and relaxing. If you come to us with pain complaints, you will likely notice positive changes within the first few treatment sessions. We work to decrease your pain (if any), restore alignment, balance, and mobility to your pelvis, sacrum, thoracic, and lumbar spines, your back and hip muscles, connective tissues, abdominopelvic organs and any other areas giving you symptoms. We work with you to improve your function, your range of motion, and your tolerance for physical activity so we can return you to an active, productive lifestyle.

As your pain decreases and function begins to return, we educate you in a lifelong preventive and restorative exercise program to improve flexibility, strength, lifting ability and endurance levels. Enhancement of personal and professional life generally follows as a result. We invite you to be an active member of the team that treats you, creating and achieving your goals together. We are glad to work hand in hand with your physician, if you and she/he are interested in that.

Personal privacy

We follow the ethical guidelines of the American Medical Association (AMA) and American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ACOG) regarding patient draping and right to a chaperone. We provide coverings - blankets, gowns, towels and pillowcases - for those who wish to use them. We invite you to bring your partner to therapy with you, but therapy is individual, and partners need not attend.

As manual therapists who often work in delicate or personal areas, we are sensitive to your physical and emotional comfort level. We respect your personal privacy. We keep good contact with you and your comfort level at every stage of therapy. In fact, we regard you as an expert on your own body, so we seek and appreciate your thoughts, feelings, and input. We feel your input can give us a better result. We like to keep you fully informed in every step of treatment, so we take the time to explain our theories and techniques while we are working with you.