Open Your Blocked Fallopian Tubes Without Surgery-Proven Results

Clear Passage Physical Therapy was born when we discovered that we could open blocked fallopian tubes without drugs or surgery. Many people find the story of this discovery fascinating. Please visit our history page if you are interested in learning more.

In a study published in the peer-reviewed medical journal Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine (2008)¹ and summarized for gynecologists in their professional journal Contemporary Ob/Gyn (April, 2008),² our non-surgical therapy achieved a 61% success rate opening blocked fallopian tubes in women with totally blocked tubes (the most challenging of our patients). That rate rivals or exceeds surgical success rates, without the risks or cost of surgery (complete details in the next two sections of this page). Successes in the published study of opening blocked fallopian tubes included women with

• two totally blocked fallopian tubes,
• one tube removed and the other blocked (decreasing the chance for success),
• a hydrosalpinx (tube blocked and filled with fluid), and
• distal blockage (in a challenging area, near the ovary).

The results of our therapy appear to last for years, for many clients who come to us with blocked fallopian tubes. Several women have had two or more natural full-term pregnancies after their single (20-hour) therapy session here. This contrasts with a study in Human Reproduction,³ which showed that even in a minimally invasive surgery, 81% of tubes that were opened surgically closed again within six months, in women whose blockage was proximal (near the uterus, thus easier to access than distal blockage). * See our success rates  for ongoing results treating blocked fallopian tubes and other causes of female infertility. 

Results Opening Blocked Tubes

Clear Passage Physical Therapy is committed to fact and scientific inquiry. Our recently published 'blocked tubes study'1 is the result of nearly two decades of research conducted under the direction and oversight of independent research scientists and physicians. The Wurn Technique® has been shown to open tubes and return the ability to conceive naturally for women with hydrosalpinx and blocked fallopian tubes regardless of the location of the blockage.  Therapy opened fallopian tubes in 61% of the women who came to us with total tubal occlusion (completely blocked tubes)  and 53% of those had a natural intrauterine pregnancy (some women also went on to become pregnant again after their first child and have had more than one child since therapy). 1 Therapy also opened blocked tubes with hydrosalpinx ⁴ and half of those women became pregnant naturally via the tube that previously had a hydrosalpinx.

Locations of Blockage

Fallopian tube blockage can occur anywhere within the tube. Surgery to open fallopian tubes blocked at their entrance into the uterus is considered the least invasive surgical approach to open blocked fallopian tubes. Even so, the tubes have been shown to close again in 81% of cases after surgery to open fallopian tubes blocked in this area.³ Thus, even the simplest surgery only gave a small "window of time" in which to conceive naturally, according to the published data. After six months, the success rate for surgically opened fallopian tubes is 19%.

By contrast, our non-surgical therapy opened tubes for 66% of the women whose blockage was proximal (in the same area as the surgical study, near the uterus). This data was reported in the peer-reviewed journal Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine (Jan, 2008)1, and cited in the gynecologic professional journal Contemporary Ob/Gyn (April, 2008).

We feel comfortable that the positive effects of our therapy lasts for years because women continue to report subsequent natural pregnancies years after therapy. In the Alternative Therapies  study cited above, a third of the women who conceived naturally after therapy opened their tubes called back to report subsequent natural pregnancies - without need for additional therapy after their initial 20-hour session.

When tubes are blocked further in, they become much more difficult and complex to treat surgically. In fact, surgical correction must be done by laparoscopy, or laparotomy (open surgery). Success rates for opening tubes blocked in the middle or at the distal end (near the ovary) are much lower than surgery for proximal occlusion (near the uterus.)

In the recently published study, our unique physical therapy technique opened tubes for 40% of the women with mid-tubal occlusion (near the uterus).

The most difficult and delicate area to address surgically is the distal end of the fallopian tube, by the ovary. There, the delicate finger-like fimbriae of the fallopian tubes are subject to restriction and even “clubbing” due to infection, trauma , or prior surgery. The chances are generally considered poor for pregnancy after surgery to open tubes that are blocked distally. Nevertheless, our non-surgical therapy opened tubes for 50% of the women with distal occlusion (near the ovary), and many of the women became pregnant.

In addition, therapy opened tubes in 80% of the women with combination of any of the above three.

We have also seen promising results in women who have a hydrosalpinx, as noted in the graph above. For more information on that, please visit our hydrosalpinx page.

Pregnancy Results

Of our successes, 53% of the patent study participants reported a natural intrauterine pregnancy within the first two years after therapy. That number has since increased, as more study patients have called us to let us know they became pregnant or had full-term pregnancies, more than two years after therapy. Both of these statistics (61% opening tubes, 53% of those becoming pregnant) are considered remarkable in a population that had no chance of natural pregnancy before therapy, and in a difficult area to treat successfully, with surgery.

Risks and Side Effects

Women who have had problems with their fallopian tubes are considered at increased risk of ectopic pregnancies (pregnancy within the tube). This is a serious condition, and any pregnancy in this group should be monitored carefully for ectopics. We are pleased that none of our successes had an ectopic. In fact, only one study participant had an ectopic. Remarkably, this ectopic occurred in a woman whose tubes did not “officially” open per her post-treatment HSG, indicating that the tube likely opened partially but not totally, after therapy.

Patients did report decreased period and intercourse pain and increased sexual function (desire, arousal, lubrication, orgasm and satisfaction) as positive side effects of therapy.

Duration of Results

Some women reported more than one pregnancy in the two years that we followed our patients after therapy. This indicates that our results appear to last. These results compare positively with surgery to open tubes, as noted in a recent medical study (below).

After surgical opening of blocked tubes, many fallopian tubes close again within a few months, presumably due to the adhesions that form after surgery. This concern was documented in a study published in Human Reproduction.³ According to the journal, after a minimally invasive surgical procedure for proximal blockage (the easiest for surgeons to repair), tubes became blocked again in 81% of patients after only six months. This apparently does not happen after our work, theoretically because it is less invasive than surgery.

Other Procedures

Many infertility procedures attempt to surgically bypass the actual cause of female infertility. Surgical techniques such as IVF, GIFT , and other artificial reproductive techniques try to bypass poor reproductive function between the ovaries and the uterus. As remarkable as these procedures are, it is unfortunate that each procedure provides only one opportunity for pregnancy.

Artificial insemination attempts to assist sperm to enter the uterus, but it is useless if there is no ‘clear passage' through the fallopian tubes for the egg and sperm to travel. Blocked fallopian tubes prevent the sperm and egg from meeting, thus preventing pregnancy.

Clear Passage Physical Therapy

We address the cause of many types of female infertility, including totally blocked fallopian tubes. Interestingly, it seems to make little difference if the tubes have been blocked for a year, or a decade. In short, Clear Passage therapists have been shown to open blocked fallopian tubes in about two-thirds of the women who come to us with reports of totally blocked tubes, and most of those go on to have natural, full-term pregnancies.

1. Wurn BF, Wurn LJ, King CR, Heuer MA, Roscow AS, Hornberger K, Scharf ES. Treating Fallopian Tube Occlusion with a Manual Pelvic Physical Therapy. Altern Ther Health Med. 2008 Jan-Feb;14(1):18-23. PMID 18251317.
2. Can noninvasive pelvic physical therapy open occluded fallopian tubes? Contemporary Ob/Gyn, Technology, Vol. 53, April 15, 2008, p. 12.
3. Glelcher N, Confino E, Cofrman R, et.al.  The multicentre transcervical balloon tuboplasty study: conclusions and comparison to alternative technologies. Human Reproduction. 1993; 8(8): 1264-1271.
4. Wurn LJ, Wurn BF, Kan M, King CR, Roscow AS, Scharf ES. Treating hydrosalpinx with a manual physical therapy. Fertil Steril. 2006; 86 (Supp 2): S307. Abstract.