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Wise-Anderson Protocol (Stanford Protocol)
2004 - Urologic Myofascial Pain Syndromes (Doggweiler-Wiygul)
2004 - Myofascial Pain Syndromes – Trigger Points
2005 - Myofascial Trigger Point Release and Paradoxical Relaxation training treatment of chronic pelvic pain
2005 - The Stanford Protocol (paper presented at AUA 2005)
2006 - Sexual Dysfunction in Chronic Prostatitis/CPPS: Improvement after Trigger Point Release + Paradoxical Relaxation Training
2008 - Muscle Tenderness in Men With Chronic Prostatitis
2008 - Uncovering The Biochemical Milieu Of Myofascial Trigger Points Using In Vivo Microdialysis
2010 - Myofascial pain syndrome in the pelvic floor: A common urological condition
2011 - Study of safety and efficacy of Internal Trigger Point Wand developed and used in the Wise-Anderson Protocol
2011 - 6-Day Intensive Treatment Protocol for Refractory Chronic Prostatitis/Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndrome Using Myofascial Release and Paradoxical Relaxation Training
2016 - Male Pelvic Pain: Beyond Urology and Chronic Prostatitis
Stress and Nerves
1995 - Stress & Inflammation (Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis & Immune-Mediated Inflammation)
2000 - Biofeedback, Pelvic Floor & Bladder Training
2001 - Nerves, Stress, CFS/Fibromyalgia and Chronic Pain
2001 - Role Of Afferent Neurons In Stress Induced Degenerative Changes Of The Bladder
2006 - Neuroimmunoendocrine circuitry (HPA axis, cortisol, stress)
2008 - Psychometric Profiles and HPA Axis Function in Men with CP/CPPS
Genetics
2009 - Pharmacogenomics as a Guide for Treating UCPPS
Pharmacology
2011 - Drug Therapies for CP/CPPS: help or hype?
Urology
2010 - Dr Shoskes List of Tips for Urologists Treating CPPS
Psychology
2004 - Interstitial Cystitis and Panic Disorder
Neurology
1999 - Basic Neuroanatomy for Understanding Pelvic Pain in females (similar in males)
Mast Cells
1997 - How To Diagnose IC Based On Mast Cell Biopsy Findings
2000 - Basophils and Mast Cells
2000 - Mast Cells and Neurogenic Cystitis
2001 - CP/CPPS and Immunology Study
2001 - The Diverse Role of Mast Cells
2004 - Critical Role of Mast Cells in Diseases
2004 - Mast cells as targets of corticotropin releasing factor (stress-mast cells crosstalk)
2007 - The Mast Cell in Interstitial Cystitis
IC/PBS and CP/CPPS — The Same Disease?
2001 - Interstitial Cystitis: Past and Future
2001 - IC: Current Controversies
2001 - IC: Current issues in Diagnosis
2001 - IC in Males
2001 - IC in Identical Twins
2002 - Similarities Between Interstitial Cystitis & Male Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndrome
2002 - Interstitial cystitis, pelvic pain, & the relationship to myofascial pain
General
2001 - Immunomodulation of Autoimmune & Inflammatory Diseases w/ Immune Globulin
2001 - New agents for the medical treatment of interstitial cystitis
2007 - Treating IC/PBS (many of these drugs also treat CP/CPPS)
Phytochemicals & Alternative Treatment of Prostatitis
1999 - Quercetin In Men With Category III Chronic Prostatitis
2000 - Modulation Of Apoptotic & Inflammatory Genes By Bioflavonoids
2000 - Integrative Urology: A Spectrum Of Complementary And Alternative Therapy
2001 - Beta-endorphin & prostaglandin e2 levels in prostatic fluid of chronic prostatitis pts (effect of quercetin)
Opioids and Pain Suppression
2003 - Opioids and Chronic Neuropathic Pain
Antibiotics and Alpha-Blockers
2000 - Antibiotics are Immunomodulators
2003 - Efficacy of Terazosin (an alpha-blocker)
2004 - Antibiotics — No. Alpha-blockers — maybe
Prostatitis Papers from CPCRN group, 2002 Meeting
2002 - Overview summary statement on CPPS Dec 2002
2002 - Classification and demographics of prostatitis
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2002 - Chronic prostatitis: epidemiology and role of infection
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Discussion
2002 - Development and validation of the NIH chronic prostatitis symptom index
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Discussion
2002 - Clinical evaluation of men w/ chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome
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Discussion
2002 - Antimicrobial therapy for bacterial and nonbacterial prostatitis
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Discussion
2002 - Role of a-blockers in the treatment of chronic prostatitis
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Discussion
2002 - Inflammation and anti-inflammatory therapy in chronic prostatitis
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2002 - Phytotherapy in chronic prostatitis
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Discussion
2002 - Heat therapy in the treatment of prostatitis
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Discussion
2002 - Bladder training biofeedback and pelvic floor myalgia
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Miscellaneous Papers
2000 - Overactive Bladder (OAB)
2001 - Prostatitis: State of the Art
2002 - Theories of Prostatitis Etiology
2002 - Cytokine Polymorphisms in Chronic Prostatitis/CPPS
2007 - Management of Men diagnosed with Chronic Prostatitis/CPPS who have failed Traditional Management
2007 - Prostatitis: The Sex Destroyer (from Best Life magazine)
2009 - UPOINT Clinical Phenotyping of CP/CPPS Patients
2011 - DABBEC Phenotyping System (DPS) of CP/CPPS Patients
Infection Theory of Prostatitis
1998 - Prostatitis: US Perspectives
2002 - Aerobic Studies On Normal Male Urethra
2003 - Schaeffer Editorial on Antibiotics and Bacteria
2003 - Prostate Biopsy Culture Findings for CPPS same as Healthy Controls
Pudendal Nerve Entrapment: A False Concept
2015 - Anatomic Variations of the Pudendal Nerve; Implications for the Theory of "Pudendal Nerve Entrapment" (PNE)
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