New Study About Prostatitis in the Journal of Urology Shows Increasing Evidence That Chronic Prostatitis is a Muscle Tension Disorder

New Study About Prostatitis in the Journal of Urology Shows Increasing
Evidence That Chronic Prostatitis is a Muscle Tension Disorder

SEBASTOPOL, Calif., Nov. 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In the November 2009
issue of the Journal of Urology, Stanford Medical School researcher Dr. Rodney
Anderson and researchers at the National Center for Pelvic Pain Research, in a
new study, demonstrated a high correlation between the location of painful
trigger points inside the pelvic floor muscles of men with chronic prostatitis
and the location in the body where they routinely complain of pain.

A new treatment called the Wise-Anderson Protocol, originally developed at
Stanford University in the department of Urology, treats men with chronic
prostatitis in a monthly 6 day immersion clinic. It has been successful in
helping to reduce the symptoms of a large majority of men diagnosed with
chronic prostatitis who have not responded to any other treatment. The clinic
aims to rehabilitate chronically contracted pelvic muscles and modify the
tendency to tighten the pelvic muscles under stress.

It is estimated that 8 to 10% of American men suffer from prostatitis in which
they have symptoms of urinary frequency, urgency, sitting pain, genital,
sexual and rectal discomfort. Prostatitis is typically treated with
antibiotics according to the conventional model that the source of prostatitis
symptoms is an infection or inflammation in the prostate gland. Antibiotics
and anti-inflammatory medications routinely fail to resolve chronic symptoms
of prostatitis in well over 90% of men diagnosed with chronic prostatitis.

The Stanford article adds to mounting evidence that prostatitis (chronic
pelvic pain syndrome) is a psychoneuromuscular condition in which the muscles
of the pelvic floor, in response to psychological or physical stress, become
chronically contracted. Once this stress causes the muscles of the pelvic
floor to chronically tighten, a condition of chronic spasm and muscle
contraction occurs and is fed by a cycle of tension, anxiety, pain and
protective guarding. Dr. Anderson et al have published other articles in the
Journal of Urology showing the efficacy of their treatment. They have written
about this new treatment in the popular book A Headache in the Pelvis, now in
its 5th edition. More information about the Wise-Anderson Protocol is found on
chronic prostatitis, pelvic pain and their treatment, in a number of videos at
www.pelvicpainhelp.com and in written information.

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