Larry Wurn, LMT

Larry Wurn is CEO of Clear Passage. With his wife Belinda, he co-developed the Wurn Technique^® and Clear Passage Approach^®, a non-surgical treatment for pain, female infertility, bowel obstruction, and sexual dysfunction.

Larry is a graduate of San Francisco State University (BS in English / Creative Writing, 1972) and the Florida Institute of Natural Health (LMT, 1990). He is a Florida-licensed massage therapist.

Something of a Renaissance man, Larry was Guest Curator at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, initiating and directing large art expositions for that city and those museums. Then he ran into his childhood love, Belinda. “We fell in love all over again,” he said “right before she developed cancer.” The surgery and radiation therapy to treat the cancer likely saved her life, but left her in debilitating pain – due to adhesions. A year afterwards, he saw the love of his life racked with pain, and knew he had to do something. Understanding that adhesions were the cause of her pain, and that surgery would only make things worse, he stopped everything he was doing to help her find a cure. Neither of them knew at the time – this effort would define his adult life – and become Clear Passage.

Along with Belinda, Larry studied manual therapy with recognized experts in the U.S. and Europe to help treat his wife for the severe pain and dysfunction she experienced from surgery and pelvic radiation. Prior to the development of the Wurn Technique, Belinda had been unable to find relief through traditional medical care. Larry and Belinda combined the most effective techniques of the instructors with whom they studied, then refined and developed their own techniques to create the unique treatment used in Clear Passage clinics today.

Larry has performed over 36,000 hours of manual therapy, and admits that his hands are getting tired. Straying from his arts background, he co-authored pioneering studies on the use of the Wurn Technique and Clear Passage Approach to treat chronic pain, endometriosis, women’s sexual health, and infertility. His research has been published in numerous peer-reviewed medical journals including the Journal of Endometriosis, Medscape General Medicine, Contemporary Ob/Gyn, Healthcare, Journal of Clinical Medicine, and Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine. These citations demonstrate positive results treating endometriosis pain, opening blocked fallopian tubes, increasing IVF success, clearing adhered and blocked intestines, and improving fertility.

Larry has lectured at several RESOLVE (National Fertility Association) symposiums and has presented our research findings to the American Society for Reproductive Medicine on topics such as endometriosis, sexual pain and dysfunction, and research supporting complementary therapies for fertility. He has also presented a study abstract, now published in the journal Gastroenterology, to 15,000 gastroenterology physicians at the 2015 Digestive Disease Week meeting. The abstract, titled “Treating Small Bowel Obstructions with a Manual Physical Therapy,” examined Clear Passage’s non-surgical treatment of recurring bowel obstructions. In addition, Larry joined some of the top U.S. gastroenterology experts to deliver a presentation to over 500 physicians — onsite and online — on the importance of treating bowel adhesions in patients with unresolved SIBO (small intestinal bacterial overgrowth) at the 2015 SIBO Symposium.

Larry is charged with recruiting the finest physical therapists available to direct and staff Clear Passage locations in the U.S. and United Kingdom.

He graduated B.S. in English and Creative Writing from University of California and San Francisco. He feels that his lifetime background in the arts blends well with the more scientifically oriented physical therapists on staff, who learn the Clear Passage Approach. “At its core, our work is built on a foundation of measurable science – blended at times with fine art.”

Before developing their work with infertility, endometriosis and bowel obstructions, Larry and Belinda owned a network of chronic pain clinics.

Selected peer-reviewed publications (in chronological order):