Articles related to the Stanford Protocol

In the April 2001 Urology Times, two articles discuss prostatitis from viewpoints that substantially differ from the widely accept one. These articles may be of great importance to men with prostatitis who have not been helped by regular treatment. Both articles call into question the standard assumption that the heart of the problem of prostatitis lies in an inflamed or infected prostate gland and imply the source of the problem probably lies elsewhere.

The first article states a view that in certain cases , prostatitis may well be a neuromuscular disorder of the muscles of the pelvic floor, caused by chronic tension of the pelvic muscles, and not a problem of the prostate gland.. The article describes a new non-drug treatment used in the pelvic pain clinic of the Urology Department at Stanford University Medical Center.

The second article, the lead article of the Urology Times, April 2001 which reports the results of a study of the biopsied prostate tissue from 97 men diagnosed with chronic prostatitis. This careful study provides clear evidence that there is simply no inflammation in the prostates of 66% of men in the study, and in all but 4% of the remaining men, inflammation is so mild as to be almost an insignificant feature. Again in this article the role of the prostate in prostatitis is called into serious question.

David Wise, Ph.D.,

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