Adhesion Awareness Giveaway Offers Over $9,700 in Prizes

By Djordje Jurinac on Aug 30, 2011
Virtually all people have adhesions (internal scars). If you scrape your knee, have a fall, undergo surgery or develop an infection, adhesions form to surround the injured area. As the body heals, adhesions often remain at the site of the trauma, surgery, infection or inflammation.


Unfortunately, they can spread to nearby organs, muscles, or nerves, causing unexplained pain or dysfunction. Small but powerful adhesions can act like nylon ropes or straight-jackets, and can cause a myriad of health problems.


Adhesions are often an underlying cause of chronic pain, female infertility, endometriosis pain, and bowel obstructions. Because they are invisible on most diagnostic tests, such as x-rays, CT and MRI scans, they often go undiagnosed by physicians and health care professionals.


Clear Passage Physical Therapy has developed and researched non-invasive treatments for adhesions for over twenty years. Their non-surgical, hands-on therapy (Wurn Technique) uses techniques that feel like a deep massage, to release adhesions that bind structures within the body. In published studies, most patients reported significant pain relief, and a return of function.


In honor of Adhesion Related Disorder (ARD) Awareness Month this September, Clear Passage will donate over $9,700 in treatment and lodging, to three prize winners. Patients who suffer from an ARD can enter this giveaway on the Clear Passage website or on their Facebook page.


The grand prize winner will receive 20 hours of free treatment at Clear Passage’s national headquarters in Gainesville, FL and five days of lodging at a lovely Florida waterfront cottage (a $6,100 value). The second prize winner will receive 10 hours of free treatment (a $2,600 value), and the third prize winner will receive 20 percent off a 20 hour treatment program (a $1,040 value).


“Diagnosing adhesions can be confusing, because they often cross body systems,” says Clear Passage National Director Belinda Wurn, PT. “Many people go from specialist to specialist, sometimes for years, simply searching for a diagnosis. Their problems increase when they learn that the surgery to remove adhesions can often create more adhesions.”


“We are pleased to offer a non-surgical alternative to patients” she said. “It’s very gratifying to give adhesion sufferers back their lives.”


About Clear Passage Physical Therapy

Clear Passage Physical Therapy is a network of high quality physical therapy clinics specializing in hands-on treatment of adhesions, chronic pain, infertility, endometriosis, and bowel obstruction.
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Amniotic membrane transplant a viable treatment option for restrictive strabismus

Amniotic membrane transplantation should be considered when treating difficult cases of restrictive strabismus because it helps prevent adhesion recurrence, a study found.

"Because amniotic membrane has anti-inflammatory and anti-fibrosis characteristics, it may reduce secondary scarring and help prevent recurrence of restrictive strabismus and the diplopia and pain that often accompany this type of strabismus," the authors said.

The retrospective, interventional case series included eight eyes of seven consecutive patients who had developed restrictive strabismus after periocular surgery due to conjunctival scarring, fat adherence syndrome or rectus muscle contracture.

After failed additional standard surgery to remove the adhesions, patients underwent amniotic membrane transplantation.

Six of seven patients experienced improved ocular motility, with no recurrent scarring. Their motility remained stable for the 5- to 13-month follow-up period, according to the study.

One patient had recurrent scarring with persistent diplopia.

http://www.osnsupersite.com/view.aspx?rid=85142

The inpatient burden of abdominal and gynecological adhesiolysis in the US

Adhesions are fibrous bands of scar tissue, often a result of surgery, that form between internal organs and tissues, joining them together abnormally. Postoperative adhesions frequently occur following abdominal surgery, and are associated with a large economic burden.

This study examines the inpatient burden of adhesiolysis in the United States (i.e ., number and rate of events, cost, length of stay [LOS]).

Methods: Hospital discharge data for patients with primary and secondary adhesiolysis were analyzed using the 2005 Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project's Nationwide Inpatient Sample. Procedures were aggregated by body system.

Results: We identified 351,777 adhesiolysis-related hospitalizations: 23.2% for primary and 76.8% for secondary adhesiolysis.

The average LOS was 7.8 days for primary adhesiolysis. We found that 967,332 days of care were attributed to adhesiolysis-related procedures, with inpatient expenditures totaling $2.3 billion ($1.4 billion for primary adhesiolysis; $926 million for secondary adhesiolysis).

Hospitalizations for adhesiolysis increased steadily by age and were higher for women. Of secondary adhesiolysis procedures, 46.3% involved the female reproductive tract, resulting in 57,005 additional days of care and $220 million in attributable costs.

Conclusions: Adhesiolysis remain an important surgical problem in the United States.

Hospitalization for this condition leads to high direct surgical costs, which should be of interest to providers and payers.

Author: Vanja SikiricaBela BapatSean CandrilliKeith DavisMalcolm WilsonAlan Johns
Credits/Source: BMC Surgery 2011, 11:13