Anyone interested in current chronic pelvic pain research may find the World Journal of Urology very useful. Although some articles are technical, many address the issues that are discussed in this forum. The Journal is found in most university libraries, or articles can borrowed through your local library's "Inter Library Loan."
A recent issue had a special topic devoted entirely to CPPS. You may recognize some of the authors:
World Journal of Urology
Volume 21, Number 2
April 2003
Prostatitis: ancient history and new horizons
John N. Krieger, Wolfgang Weidner
Chronic pelvic pain syndrome: a non-prostatocentric perspective
Jeannette M. Potts
Chronic prostatitis: what we know, what we do not know, and what we should do!
B. Lobel, A. Rodriguez
Etiology: where does prostatitis stop and interstitial cystitis begin?
Evan R. Eisenberg, Robert M. Moldwin
Epidemiology of prostatitis: new evidence for a world-wide problem
John N. Krieger, Donald E. Riley, Phaik Yeong Cheah, et al.
Recommendations for the evaluation of patients with prostatitis
J. Curtis Nickel
Chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome: seminal markers of inflammation
Martin Ludwig, Andreas Vidal, Thorsten Diemer, et al.
The impact of chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome on patients
Mary McNaughton Collins
Mechanisms of pain in chronic pelvic pain syndrome: influence of prostatic inflammation
Aare Mehik, Markku J. Leskinen, Pekka Hellström
The role of cytokines in prostatitis
Thomas L. Jang, Anthony J. Schaeffer
Application of real-time polymerase chain reaction technology to detect prostatic bacteria in patients with chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome Satoshi Takahashi, Donald E. Riley, John N. Krieger
Prostatitis: the role of antibiotic treatment
F. M. E. Wagenlehner, K. G. Naber
Herbal and complementary medicine in chronic prostatitis
Daniel A. Shoskes, Kannan Manickam
I owe my (partial) recovery to an author of a previous article which described CPPS in terms of myofascial pain and pelvic floor dysfunction due to lumbar problems. I personally contacted the author, and she referred me to a local specialist who has been treating me (succesfully) for the past two years.