Hydrosalpinx

What is a hydrosalpinx?

Hydrosalpinx is a medical condition in which a fallopian tube becomes blocked and filled with fluid, usually due to prior infection, inflammation, or injury. The blockage prevents the egg and sperm from meeting, making natural conception impossible. Hydrosalpinx is also referred to as “swollen tubes.”

Two Treatment Options

Surgery Followed by IVF

Reproductive physicians often consider swollen tubes beyond repair. One concern is that fluid trapped in the tube could backflow into the uterus, endangering an embryo. Surgical repair presents its own concerns as post-surgical adhesions tend to re-close the tube within six months after surgical repair. For this reason, most doctors recommend surgically removing the affected tube. If both tubes are swollen, physicians may suggest removing both tubes. Following surgery, most recommend proceeding directly to in vitro fertilization (IVF), believing it is the only way their patient will achieve a uterine pregnancy.

Clear Passage® Therapy – a Natural Alternative

The first evidence that a manual (hands-on) therapy focused on decreasing adhesions could clear hydrosalpinx and return fertility to swollen tubes was published in Fertility and Sterility (2006), the primary journal of U.S. reproductive physicians. In their initial pilot study, Clear Passage® therapists opened fallopian tubes in 50% (4/8) of women whose tubes were both blocked and swollen using just their hands. 75% (3/4) of those women conceived – two naturally and one by IVF. One of the women who conceived naturally reported a second natural pregnancy and birth after the study closed.

Inspired by the above results, our researchers began measuring and reporting our success rates with pregnancy, surgery, and HSG dye tests (example shown below). Results from a 10-year study of 1392 infertile women (Alt Ther Hlth Med, 2015) showed Clear Passage® therapy opened one or more tubes, swollen and blocked with hydrosalpinx in 45% of women without surgery. The overall pregnancy rate was 57% for all women whose tubes we opened. As in the initial pilot study, several women reported successive pregnancies and births after their first baby, without further Clear Passage® treatment.

We Often Clear Hydrosalpinx Without Surgery

Unique in the world, Clear Passage® uses highly researched manual skills we have developed over 38 years to open, save, and return function to blocked fallopian tubes without surgery. After we have opened one or both tubes, function and fertility tend to return. As shown above, most of our patients conceive one or more children naturally after we open their blocked or swollen tubes. They simply return home and have intercourse naturally in order to build their family.

There is generally no need for follow-up therapy after the initial 20-hour protocol. Many patients report additional natural pregnancies and births after we open their previously blocked tube.

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. Well over half report increased desire, lubrication, and orgasm after therapy.

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