New Findings About Emotional Brain Changes in Prostatitis, Chronic Pelvic...
Swiss researchers looking into brain activity in men with prostatitis, chronic pelvic pain syndrome report that in a small group of men there is a reduction in relative gray matter volume in a part of...
View ArticleThe Invisible Patient: The Symptoms of Chronic Prostatitis and Chronic Pelvic...
A recent article in the Korean Journal of Urology (see below) documented that men diagnosed with chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome (chronic prostatitis, chronic pelvic pain syndrome)...
View ArticleAttention training and calming down arousal in the treatment of prostatitis...
Paradoxical Relaxation and the treatment of prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome. In a recent New York Times article (see excerpt below), the usefulness of concentration as an integral part of a...
View ArticleIschemic Pressure Followed by Sustained Stretch for Treatment of Myofascial...
In an article in 2000 in Physical Therapy investigators found that teaching patients to do ischemic compression (pressure on trigger points) in the neck and upper back was effective in reducing pain...
View ArticleThe Successful Treatment of Chronic Prostatitis and Chronic Pelvic Pain and...
Chronic prostatitis and chronic pelvic pain and their relationship to mind and body. We are often asked whether the physical or behavioral parts of the Wise-Anderson Protocol treatment for chronic...
View ArticleThe Treatment of Prostatitis and Taking Hot Baths
Symptoms of prostatitis that is muscle based have typically not responded to conventional medical treatment. When the men we have seen have complained to their doctor of pain in the anus or genitals,...
View ArticleSuccessfully treating the stress dimension of prostatitis, chronic pelvic...
Growing number of scientific articles on stress and prostatitis and pelvic pain related disorders. Over the past number of years there have been a growing number of articles appearing in the major...
View ArticleChronic Pelvic Pain Syndrome: Reduction of Medication Use After Pelvic Floor...
Abstract Appl Psychophysiol Biofeedback DOI 10.1007/s10484-015-9273-1 February 2015 Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndrome: Reduction of Medication Use After Pelvic Floor Physical Therapy with an Internal...
View ArticleUsing Modern Concepts Like “Airplane Mode”, “Computer Freeze Up” and “Default...
In this article we use the modern metaphor of “airplane mode” to explain what we believe is the necessity of putting the nervous system of the pelvic pain sufferer into an ongoing healing mode to allow...
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HOW THE WISE-ANDERSON PROTOCOL TEACHES PATIENTS TO REDUCE THEIR DEFAULT LEVEL...
PART 1 – INTRODUCTION: PELVIC PAIN IS A PSYCHO-PHYSICAL EVENT During the writing of the fourth edition of our book, a physical therapy colleague of ours reported an important story that occurred with...
View ArticleChronic Pelvic Pain: Reduce Medication Use With Internal Trigger Point Wand
Abstract Appl Psychophysiol Biofeedback DOI 10.1007/s10484-015-9273-1 February 2015 Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndrome: Reduction of Medication Use After Pelvic Floor Physical Therapy with an Internal...
View ArticleSymptoms and Treatments in Pelvic Pain: Using Modern Terms to Explain Nervous...
Pelvic Pain Symptoms and Treatments: Using Modern Terms to Explain Nervous System Arousal Airplane mode, in fact, is an excellent metaphor in terms of describing the pelvic pain symptoms and treatments...
View ArticleReducing Anxiety to Heal Pelvic Pain: The Wise-Anderson Protocol
PART 1 – INTRODUCTION: PELVIC PAIN IS A PSYCHO-PHYSICAL EVENT TO REDUCE ANXIETY Learn the importance to reduce Psycho-Physical events to help reduce Anxiety. During the writing of the fourth edition of...
View ArticleSymptoms and Treatments in Pelvic Pain: Using Modern Terms to Explain Nervous...
Pelvic Pain Symptoms and Treatments: Using Modern Terms to Explain Nervous System Arousal Airplane mode, in fact, is an excellent metaphor in terms of describing the pelvic pain symptoms and treatments...
View ArticleReducing Anxiety to Heal Pelvic Pain: The Wise-Anderson Protocol
PART 1 – INTRODUCTION: PELVIC PAIN IS A PSYCHO-PHYSICAL EVENT TO REDUCE ANXIETY Learn the importance to reduce Psycho-Physical events to help reduce Anxiety. During the writing of the fourth edition of...
View ArticleEffortlessness as the Unlikely Medicine for Pelvic Floor Pain
In an earlier podcast I discussed ‘letting go’ as the medicine of the Wise-Anderson Protocol. By letting go, I mean the release of muscle tension inside and outside the body and daily reduction of...
View ArticlePelvic Floor Healing Occurs Within an Environment of Inner Quiet
There is a deep insight in a book called the Course in Miracles that says: “ In my defenselessness my safety lies”. This means that we only feel safe when we are not tightening up in self-defense and...
View ArticleA treatment to stop pelvic pain must cooperate with the body’s healing system
With all the discoveries of modern medicine, there remains a certain arrogance in the idea that medicine is the source of health and longevity. Yes, we live longer, and illnesses and conditions that...
View ArticleCause and Effect In Muscle Based Pelvic Pain
What makes a difference in the journey of healing pelvic pain is seeing when you are doing something that reliably helps your symptoms. When I was symptomatic, I tried all kinds of things: acupuncture,...
View ArticleWhy drugs don’t cure pelvic floor pain
I’d like to talk about the opioid epidemic that has been in the news the past several years in relationship to the inside job of healing pelvic pain that is outside the reach of all drugs. In recent...
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