Most of our patients have at least two or more prostatitis symptoms. See a more detailed list with descriptions of the symptoms at the bottom of this page. The failure of treating what is diagnosed as prostatitis with antibiotics, alpha blockers and anti-inflammatories is old news. The vast majority of our male patients diagnosed with prostatitis have no prostate infection and no pathology of the prostate gland that can account for their symptoms.
This is why treatment aimed at the prostate gland i. A study we published in reported that after six months of following our treatment, one third of patients voluntarily discontinued all medication. Prostatitis refers to an infection or inflammation of the prostate gland. Government and prominent research studies have shown that most men diagnosed with prostatitis have no infection. Confirming the presence of infection requires a positive culture of the prostatic fluid, which although can be easily done, often is not.
Indeed, one of the reasons our team is so well knowledgeable in this concept is that at Stanford University Dr. Rodney Anderson, coauthor of A Headache in the Pelvis and ran the prostatitis and pelvic pain clinic at Stanford for many years, worked closely with Dr. Thomas Stamey, co-inventor of the original test for prostatitis. The problem is not in the organs of the pelvis but in the muscles of the pelvis. Tension-anxiety-pain-protective guarding self-feeding cycle.
This charley horse forms a self-feeding cycle of tension-anxiety-pain-protective guarding. When an animal is afraid, the muscles of the pelvis tighten, pulling in the tail.
While humans no longer have a tail, the pelvic muscles still tighten up in certain individuals who chronically deal with stress. This chronic contraction can result in problems with urination, defecation, ejaculation, sitting, and other basic day-to-day functions. Pelvic pain r elief from prostatitis, with its often bewildering and troubling symptoms, is what those seeking help from any treatment are looking for when they go to a doctor.
