Blocked Tubes (Sponsored Content)

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As the place where natural conception occurs, the fallopian tubes are truly the place where life begins.

Due to their location and size, fallopian tubes can become blocked from pelvic scars or adhesions. Together, these “mechanical causes” account for about 40% of all female infertility. Tubes can block near the uterus (proximal), by the ovary (distal) or in the middle of the tube (mid-tubal). In some cases, the tube swell with a fluid in a condition called hydrosalpinx.




While a single blocked tube impairs fertility, blockage of both tubes causes total infertility. Partial blockage increases the risk for an ectopic pregnancy in which the fertilized egg becomes trapped within the tube, unable to travel to the uterus for implantation.

Treatment Options
Surgery
Until recently, the only options for women with blocked tubes were to undergo surgery to open one or both tubes, or to remove the blocked tubes, and proceed directly to in vitro fertilization (IVF). This is often the recommended course that infertility specialists offer to women with hydrosalpinx.

Physical therapy
Several medical journals(1) have now examined a manual physical therapy (Wurn Technique®) for its ability to open and return function to totally blocked fallopian tubes, including hydrosalpinx. The “hands-on” treatment opened tubes in most of the study participants, without surgery or drugs. Most of the successes had natural pregnancies and births after therapy. Several reported subsequent pregnancies/births, so the positive results lasted for years for these women.

In other published studies(2), the therapy significantly decreased pelvic and intercourse pain, and improved sexual function. The therapy can be used as a stand-alone infertility treatment or in conjunction with regular medical care.



Most surgeons feel surgery gives a six-month window in which to conceive before the tubes close again, due to post-surgical adhesions. In the largest study of its kind, only 19% of tubes remained open six months after surgery.(3)

Your physician can advise you about your chances for success with surgery. For information on the Wurn Technique® including a personal consultation and patient success stories click here

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1. Fertility and Sterility (9/26), Contemporary Ob-Gyn (4/2008), Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine (1/08)
2. Medscape General Medicine (12/04), Fertility and Sterility (9/26)
3. Human Reproduction (8/93); 8(8): 1264-1271.

[nadialeslie]

If you have brown spotting,or blocked tubes, first get checked for LATENT bacterial infection of the reproductive tract before you have any surgery. See Dr. Attila Toth's website. Browse his free book online - Fertile vs. Infertile. So many people are told there is no way to heal the tubes. Sometimes it's true, but many times it's not. In any case, blocked tubes are an indication that there is something wrong... ie the symptom of a hard-at-work low-lying undetected bacterial infection. It's hard to see so many people go undiagnosed, and infertility on the rise. I lost one tube to ectopic, then the second removed before another failed IVF. My brown spotting was called 'normal', since it's common, and considered just part of Endometriosis - whose cause is, by the way, also 'unknown.' Unfortunate that I wasn't referred earlier, but so fortunate to have found answers. A simple antibiotic cure 5 years ago would have been the appropriate treatment, and should have come from an OB or a PCP. It's really a tragedy that our medical system is so far behind the research.