Stop Hospitalizations and Bowel Obstructions
A non-surgical therapy that feels like a deep massage has reduced or eliminated repeat bowel obstructions in hundreds of patients with this condition. Surgeons from Harvard, Stanford, and other medical schools authored two studies after seeing the therapy’s benefit in their patients. Results from the larger study show Clear Passage® therapy stopped recurring obstructions by 15 times the norm in patients with repeat bowel obstructions (World Journal of Gastroenterology). The therapy offers hope to people wanting to avoid another hospitalization, obstruction, or surgery.
Adhesions that Cause Bowel Obstructions
Often striking without warning, small bowel obstruction (SBO) must be addressed quickly to save the patient’s life. While surgical repair is often required, obstructions often recur because post-surgical adhesions are the primary cause. Even 53% of patients who don’t have surgery will suffer more obstructions in life (Arch of Surgery). Until recently, no method existed to help people avoid a repeat SBO.
Emergency bowel repair is the 2nd most common emergency surgery in the USA (JAMA Surgery). Patients quickly learn that the surgery designed to save their life can cause their next obstruction. Hoping to reverse adhesions, Clear Passage® therapists spent decades developing a non-surgical treatment shown to be effective in reducing bowel adhesions, the major cause of obstruction.
Proof of Effectiveness
The physician-authors first published a pilot study after noting the therapy cleared intestines in cases scheduled for surgical repair (Int’l Jour Case Reports). In one case, the therapy totally cleared an ‘hourglass stricture’. In another case, the therapists opened a six-inch-long ‘string stricture’ in a patient whose bowel had been reduced to the size of a pencil lead. Previously thought impossible without surgery, Clear Passage® therapists cleared bowels in both cases, allowing food to pass through the bowel. The surgeons canceled both planned surgeries as unnecessary after therapy alone. Before and after images are shown here, with the dye shown in white.
Unique in the world, this highly researched, well-documented therapy is unlike any other treatment. 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. “It feels like we are pulling out the run in a three-dimensional sweater,” says Belinda Wurn, the physical therapist who developed the work with her husband Larry, a massage therapist.
Often feeling like a deep, site-specific massage, Clear Passage® therapy is performed without medications or surgery. Based on published results, patients receive 20 hours of therapy in two-hour sessions (e.g., four hours a day Monday through Friday.) While clearing your abdomen and pelvis of adhesions, we will inform you about your specific condition, educate you about adhesions and obstructions, and teach you ways to prevent new adhesions once you return home. Our goal is for you to leave our clinic cleared of obstructions and with the knowledge and tools to stay clear of adhesions and obstructions for the rest of your life. After Clear Passage® therapy, most patients lose their fear of having another hospitalization, NG-tube, or obstruction – forever.
Do I Qualify for Therapy?
Abdominal and pelvic organs are delicate and are the home to a vast number of conditions and processes. Including surgery to ‘explore’ or ‘repair’ them, your condition and environment can change over time. Adhesions tend to remain or grow over time, so earlier lifetime events can affect your present body. With a strength of 2000 pounds per square inch (140 Kg per cm2), adhesions from the past can act like internal glue or straitjackets, binding internal structures and causing pain or dysfunction.
We don’t want to waste your time or money, and we don’t want to chance harming you. For these reasons, we will screen your history and present condition before we can accept you as a patient.
Our Screening Process
To understand your goals and the present state of your body, we ask you to complete a Medical History Form for us to review. This form asks you to share your lifetime healing events with us. Do your best to include a full lifetime history of your falls, surgeries, injuries, and infections. We review your history and may call you if we have questions. We will share our findings with you, generally within three business days.
Common Symptoms
- Severe pain
- Nausea and vomiting
- Abdominal pain or cramping
- Abdominal bloating or swelling
- Constipation or inability to pass gas
- Loss of appetite
- Abdominal tenderness
- Distension (visibly enlarged abdomen)
- Stringy stool*
*One of the lesser-known indicators of an imminent bowel blockage is the appearance of a pencil-thin stool. This symptom often suggests a partial obstruction, allowing only a narrow passage for stool to pass.
We had the best experience with Clear Passage! My husband had bowel obstructions for numerous years, with many hospital stays. We had no idea what to do as they were getting more frequent. We found this treatment and are so thankful! It has been over a year now with no obstructions or hospitalizations. We both feel such a freedom. We brought home so much information after our five-day therapy session and even learned how to do some of the treatment at home. We can never say ‘thank you’ enough to the care Clear Passage provided. We highly recommend this for anyone with these issues.
