What Treatment Is Like

What does therapy feel like?

Our therapy, the Wurn Technique®, can feel like a deep stretch; other times, the work can be very light, as it follows the subtle rhythm within the sheath that surrounds the spinal cord. Depending on the diagnosis and treatment area, the therapist may work to improve motility – subtle organ movements. At other times, she may ask the patient to flex large muscles, or move in certain ways, to improve the body’s symmetry and function. We keep good communication with patients at all times, to maintain their comfort level, and to make sure they understand our intent, and our findings. We educate most patients in techniques to prevent reinjury, and to maximize results.

Our therapists

Our therapists have unique skills and training, unavailable anywhere else in the world. They are screened for experience and excellent manual skills before being accepted for training. In fact, we typically accept and train less than one percent of therapists who apply. Every therapist undergoes required pre-training coursework, which can take a year or more to complete. They study a 600 page Therapist Training Manual we wrote; then, they must attend extensive on-site training at our home-office. Only therapists who pass our certification test at the end of the training period become certified Clear Passage® therapists.

We have helped many women overcome infertility, and adults of both sexes to relieve their pain, obstruction, or dysfunction - often without surgery or drugs. Our directors and instructors have literally spent decades studying advanced manual physical therapy techniques, then developing and researching new protocols to restore patients’ bodies to a state of increased balance, mobility, and function. Along with these increases, patients generally note greatly reduced or totally eliminated pain by the end of five days of treatment.

Your treatment

Your treatment begins with a thorough review of your history and a (roughly one-hour) on-site physical evaluation by your evaluating therapist. We relate our findings to you, and ask you for any comments or input you would like to share with us. We invite (but do not require) your active participation with the team that is creating your results.

In your very first hour, we use our hands to locate adhered tissues in and around the organs, muscles, connective tissue and support structures of your body. We apply gentle, specific pressure in affected areas. This pressure is designed to reduce the adhesions that formed in your body over time, and return your structures to normal mobility, tone, and function.

Treatment sessions are individualized to you – based on your history, goals and physical evaluation. We explain our ongoing findings and our work on you; we listen deeply to you, and appreciate your feedback. Your therapy is always one-on-one, performed by a Clear Passage® certified therapist in a lovely private treatment room.

During your visits, your evaluating therapist will feel and treat deeply in your body, finding areas that healed and became adhered years, or even decades ago. We find and treat the compensatory pattern of adhesions which formed in your body due to trauma, surgery, inflammation, infection or poor posture over the course of your life. We always work within your tolerance and comfort level. Our intent is to slowly and meticulously break down the tiny, powerful cross-links that are the building blocks of adhesions.

Patients regularly describe our therapy as a deep or profound relief, or “something my body has needed for a long time.” We often hear “you have found the area I’ve been telling my doctor(s) about for years – but they couldn’t find anything.”

Sometimes, you will notice a pattern of pain, such as, “when you push there, I feel it in my low back, my leg, the base of my skull.” This tells us exactly where the “run” exists in your fascial sweater – the system that surrounds and separates all of your muscles and organs. Patients often express deep relief and joy to finally understand the pattern of pain or dysfunction that has plagued them for years – or decades.

Treatment sessions are generally scheduled in one to two-hour sessions, less 10-15 minutes per hour for paperwork and chart review. This equates to 45+ minutes per hour of uninterrupted manual therapy per hour. All of our therapists love to treat, but keeping good records of your history, response, and changing patterns during treatment is vital to your success, and can help with your insurance reimbursement.

Patients with pain complaints

Most patients find treatment sessions interesting, informative, and relaxing. Patients who arrive with pain complaints often notice significant changes within the first few hours of therapy. We work to decrease your pain (if any), restore alignment, balance, and mobility to your pelvis, sacrum, thoracic, and lumbar spine, your back and hip muscles, connective tissues, abdominopelvic organs and any areas giving you symptoms. We work with you to improve your function, your range of motion, and your tolerance for physical activity so we can return you to an active, productive lifestyle.

As your pain decreases and function begins to return, we educate you in a lifelong preventive and restorative exercise program to improve flexibility, strength, lifting ability and endurance levels. Profound enhancement of personal and professional life often follows as a result. We invite you to be an active member of the team that treats you, creating and achieving your goals together. We are glad to work hand in hand with your physician, if you and she/he are interested in that.

Personal privacy

We follow the ethical guidelines of the American Medical Association (AMA) and American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ACOG) regarding patient draping and right to a chaperone. We provide coverings - blankets, gowns, towels and pillowcases - for those who wish to use them. We invite you to bring your partner to therapy with you, but therapy is individual, and partners need not attend.

As manual therapists who often work in delicate or personal areas, we are sensitive to your physical and emotional comfort level. We respect your personal privacy. We keep good contact with you and your comfort level at every stage of therapy. In fact, we regard you as an expert on your own body, so we seek and appreciate your thoughts, feelings, and input. We feel your input can give us a better result. We like to keep you fully informed in every step of treatment, so we take the time to explain our theories and techniques while we are working with you. We are happy to explain our findings about your body and the ongoing changes we notice in terms you can understand (and generally feel in your body), every single session.