Alternative Therapy for Adhesion and Endometriosis Pain

Alternative Therapy for Adhesion and Endometriosis Pain Examined in New Book ‘Miracle Moms, Better Sex, Less Pain’
In an upcoming book, “Miracle Moms, Better Sex, Less Pain,” researchers examine a non-surgical therapy to treat adhesion and endometriosis pain.

Gainesville, FL (PRWEB) November 19, 2008 — Endometriosis is a painful and debilitating condition for millions of women and girls, robbing them of their quality of life. While the cause of endometriosis is unknown, some pioneering studies about a non-surgical treatment are now bringing hope for some women.

In an upcoming book, Miracle Moms, Better Sex, Less Pain, gynecologist Richard King, MD and a physical therapy team examine a manual physical therapy (Wurn Technique®) that has decreased or eliminated pain associated with endometriosis for many women.

The Wurn Technique® was originally created to treat the adhesions co-author and physical therapist Belinda Wurn developed after pelvic surgery and radiation therapy following a diagnosis of cervical cancer. “I had double-over pain,” she said. “I could not work or stand up straight. It hurt to sit and even to breathe; the pain was unrelenting.”

After the Wurn Technique resolved Belinda’s pain, she was able to return to work. She and her husband, massage therapist Larry Wurn began treating other conditions related to adhesions. They soon learned that adhesions and endometriosis pain were intimately related.

Adhesions associated with endometriosis can cause pain anywhere in the body (abdomen, pelvis, low back). Dysfunctions such as poor digestion, irritable bowel, and infertility may also result from the adhesions and endometriosis. “We believe that the pull of adhesions on pain-sensitive structures is what causes the severe, debilitating pain in many women with endometriosis,” said Larry Wurn. “In fact, adhesions are frequently found in and near sites of endometrial implants.”

Women with endometrial implants often report a great deal of pain, which may occur

• before and during menstruation (dysmenorrhea),
• with ovulation,
• with sex (dyspareunia),
• with urination, bowel movements, diarrhea, or constipation.

While physicians do not know the exact cause of endometriosis pain, they often recognize an intimate relationship between endometriosis and adhesions; when they find endometriosis, they often find adhesions nearby.

The Wurns have published several studies on the Wurn Technique in peer-reviewed medical journals. Studies in ‘Medscape General Medicine’ (2004) and ‘Fertility and Sterility’ (2006) showed that the therapy improved fertility and decreased or eliminated endometriosis and intercourse pain in most participants. In a study from ‘Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine’ (2008) the therapy opened blocked fallopian tubes in women who had been diagnosed infertile. Many had natural pregnancies after their tube(s) opened, and some have had second natural pregnancies – indicating that the results of therapy lasted for years in some women.

‘Miracle Moms, Better Sex, Less Pain’ will be published this winter. The table of contents is available at the Clear Passage Therapies blog to spur discussions with their readers on important topics. A free e-book excerpt from the book will be available in December at http://www.clearpassage.com.

What I find hilarious about this is that the Wurn Technique® is nothing more than re-applied Chi Nei Tsang – for five times the cost of Chi Nei Tsang treatment. It looks like the same torso manipulation technique. I really do not like it when people say they’ve found a secret, or they’ve discovered something wonderful, then repackage what they’ve ‘found’ and charge more to profit off of someone’s misfortune. A Chi Nei Tsang practitioner will charge around $100 for a treatment. I have sent off a questionnaire to the Clear Passage people and await their reply with price quote for treatment using the same style as Chi Nei Tsang.

December, 2008 Update: I received a package in the mail, saying there is an ‘Initial Evaluation’ fee of nearly $300, and then you have to cover your own airfare out to Florida, cover your own lodging for a week, and then on top of all that, it’s $5,000 for one week’s worth of “treatments” which they claim are “shown in published studies and abstracts to decrease endometriosis pain and symptoms.” Of the published studies in question, only ONE has anything to do with decreasing endometriosis pain, and that study involved exactly 18 women – hardly a good sampling of the millions of women world-wide, or even nation-wide who suffer from endometriosis. Buyer beware, as they say. This is NOT covered by health insurance!

Treating endometriosis pain with a manual pelvic physical therapy
L.J. Wurn, B.F. Wurn, C.R. King, A.S. Roscow, E.S. Scharf, J.J. Shuster et al.
Fertility and Sterility Vol. 86, Issue 3, Supplement, Page S262
September 2006
Eighteen patients with endometriosis confirmed via laparoscopy or laparotomy and reporting pain with intercourse, ovulation, pre-menstruation, and/or menstruation received a series of manual pelvic physical therapy sessions designed to address restricted soft tissue mobility due to micro-adhesions and adhesions. The primary outcome measures were post-test vs. pretest scores on various pain scales (i.e., each patient acted as her own control).
Follow-up tests six weeks after the last therapy session showed improvements in all areas, with the greatest pain decreases during menstruation and intercourse – typically the most painful times. Sixty-one percent (61%) of the women reported decreased pain with menstruation and sixty-nine percent (69%) reported lower to totally eliminated pain with intercourse. Thirty-nine percent (39%) experienced decreased pre-menstrual pain and fifty percent (50%) reported decreased pain with ovulation.
The Wilcoxon Sign-Rank Test (2-sided) showed a statistically significant improvement in sexual intercourse pain (dyspareunia) and in the total difference at all three phases of the cycle, including pre-menstruation, menstruation and ovulation (P = 0.014). Decreased menstrual pain was significant (P = 0.008), and decreased sexual intercourse pain was also significant (P = 0.001).