Unique in the world, Clear Passage® uses highly researched manual skills to open, save, and return function to blocked fallopian tubes without surgery. After we have opened one or both tubes, the function appears to return. Most of our patients conceive one or more children naturally after we open their blocked or swollen tubes. They simply returned home and had intercourse to build their family.

Side effects of decreasing adhesions have been positive. In published studies, over 90% of patients with intercourse pain before therapy reported significant relief or no pain after therapy. Over half reported increased desire, lubrication, and orgasm after therapy.

A Challenge to Physicians

Blocked fallopian tubes present a major challenge for reproductive physicians. Blockage at the proximal end (near the uterus) can sometimes be treated by inserting and inflating a tiny balloon at the site to clear the occlusion. Blockage in the middle or end of the tube is difficult. It requires the surgeon to slice into a tiny structure designed to carry a single cell (an egg) to meet even smaller sperm. Post-surgical adhesions tend to re-close the tube within six months, so many doctors suggest removing the tube and proceeding to IVF. This leaves the woman with no choice but IVF to create her family.

Clear Passage – a Proven Alternative

In a 10-year study of over 1000 women, we opened totally blocked tubes in 69% of women with no prior tubal surgery. Our success rates drop to 35% for women with prior surgery on their tubes. Published success rates for treating patients with total tubal blockage are shown here:

Success Rates of Treating Blocked Fallopian Tubes

68.9% opened if no prior tubal surgery (124/180)
34.5% opened in women with prior surgery to their tubes (19/55)
60.9% opened overall, with or without prior tubal surgery (143/235)
56.6% pregnancy in women whose tubes opened (81/143)

Success Rates Treating Hydrosalpinx (Swollen Tubes)

45-50% Opened
57% pregnancy in women whose tubes opened

View complete published fertility rates on our Female Infertility page.

What Therapy is Like

Backed by decades of research and published studies, our therapy is unlike any other treatment in the world. Using just our hands, our techniques focus on reducing or eliminating adhesions by dissolving internal bonds (crosslinks) that bind collagen fibers together at the 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 always performed without medications or surgery. Based on data from a researcher at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), patients receive 20 hours of therapy in two-hour sessions (e.g., four hours a day Monday through Friday). While clearing your reproductive tract of adhesions, we will share what we feel in your body, including adhered areas that may affect your fertility and other aspects of your life, and teach you ways to prevent new adhesions once you return home. We hope to open your tubes, which we do with most women. Our goal is to provide you with a more pristine reproductive system, with much better pain-free reproductive function than when you arrived.

Can This Therapy Help Me?

We don’t want to waste your time or money; we do want to screen you for any contraindication to receive therapy. Thus, we need to screen your history and present condition before we can accept you as a patient.

To better understand your total 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.

Testimonials

To read Clear Passage® Therapy patient success stories, please visit our Testimonials page.

History of Clear Passage

We were surprised in 1989 when a woman we were treating for pelvic pain reported an unexpected pregnancy after seven years of total tubal blockage with her sole partner. After repeated occurrences, Gynecologist-Surgeon Richard King, MD, who was the hospital’s Chief of Staff, called us in for an interview. After viewing six similar charts, he said, “You’re doing things I’d have difficulty doing surgically, and I’m considered an excellent surgeon. This can benefit many people; we need to investigate.” That conversation changed the course of our lives. It started a multi-decade quest for knowledge and understanding, with Dr. King guiding us in the Scientific Method as our unpaid Research Director.

From that humble base, Dr. King and others have designed many research studies published in top medical journals, and we have been invited to present our work to respected medical groups. Researchers and biostatisticians from our local medical school (University of Florida) began designing and publishing studies on our work. Over the years, they have been joined by other study authors, including physicians from Harvard, Stanford, and other fine schools. All success rates at this website are derived from scientifically accurate data from professional researchers.

Common Related Conditions

Secondary Infertility

Pelvic or Abdominal Adhesions

Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID)

Hydrosalpinx (Fluid-Filled Fallopian Tube)

Causes of Blocked Fallopian Tubes

We find internal scars called adhesions to be the usual cause of blocked fallopian tubes. In some cases, the exact cause of the blockage may be due to unforeseen, unavoidable causes. Whether by a tampon, partner, or other means, when a non-sterile item enters a woman’s vagina, it can introduce bacteria into an environment designed to nurture life. As they grow, bacteria have access to spread into her entire reproductive tract. The body’s first response to bacteria is to create adhesions. As bacteria spread in the environment designed to sustain life, they can spread, and adhesions can form anywhere in the reproductive tract.

Adhesions can glue together the tiny flower-like petals of fimbriae at the ends of each tube, preventing them from grasping an egg released from the ovary. These ‘distal’ adhesions can close the tube or create a club-like structure. When they trap bacteria inside the tube, they can create a hydrosalpinx (swollen tube). Further into the reproductive tract, adhesions can form on the ovary due to infection or surgery for women diagnosed with polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS).

Endometriosis can contribute to tubal blockage by causing inflammation and adhesions, particularly at or near sites of previous surgery or wherever endometrial tissue is present. Additional causes include nearby infections or inflammation.

Fallopian tube adhesions can develop from a variety of other factors. They commonly form due to prior surgery or from physical trauma to the pelvis or abdomen. Pelvic or abdominal procedures such as surgery for endometriosis, appendicitis, cesarean section, ectopic pregnancy, exploratory surgery, or complications from reproductive treatments can lead to the formation of adhesions. Adhesions also may develop as the body’s response to pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) or sexually transmitted infections (STIs), such as chlamydia or gonorrhea. These adhesions may form on the outside of the fallopian tubes or within them, creating strong, glue-like bonds that interfere with normal tubal function.

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