eBook

eBook Download Instructions Before purchasing your eBook, please be sure to download and authorize your free copy of Adobe Digital Editions. Clicking the launch button to your right will take you to the Adobe site to download Digital Editions. If you already have an authorized copy of ADE you can skip this step and purchase your eBook by clicking order button below.    Download Digital Editions      Digital Editions FAQs      System requirements

Secure eBook Transaction
Price: $16.95 ISBN: 9780983308201	Price: $16.95 ISBN: 9780983308218

 

Summary

This groundbreaking book describes the Wise-Anderson Protocol, a new understanding and treatment for muscle related pelvic pain in men and women whose efficacy was researched in the Department of Urology at Stanford University and whose results were published in the Journal of Urology . The Wise-Anderson Protocol treats symptoms of prostatitis, chronic pelvic pain syndrome, interstitial cystitis, levator ani syndrome, pelvic floor dysfunction and other muscle related pelvic pain disorders.

This 6th edition of our book represents our continued study and understanding of muscle related pelvic pain and dysfunction. We develop and grow in our understanding and in our treatment because we have the ongoing privilege of seeing a stream of patients with pelvic pain participating in our monthly 6-day immersion clinics. Each month, this experience of treating the different shades and varieties of pelvic pain in individuals who come to see us from around the world confirms, deepens, refines and clarifies for us how to most effectively help our patients. Since the last publication of this book, we have published an article in the Journal of Urology, for the first time documenting with clinical data the relationship between the location of trigger points in and around the pelvic floor and the location and kinds of complaints of patients suffering from this disorder. More and more, we appreciate the necessity of empowering our patients to do all of their treatment themselves. Since the publication of our book, we have given our internal trigger point wand to over 200 patients who have demonstrated the possibility of significantly reducing the sensitivity of internal trigger points and areas of pelvic floor tissue restriction and pain themselves, in the comfort of their own homes—areas that heretofore have been inaccessible for self treatment. We discuss our wand in this edition.

We have revised our section on female pelvic pain, included stories from female patients, updated the section on the medical science of pelvic pain with the most current information, presented an explanation of the possible biological basis of pelvic pain syndromes in discussing it as a ‘tail-pulled-between-the-legs’ syndrome, presented a hypothesis on why a group of men develop pelvic pain after an anxiety producing sexual encounter, and discussed the relationship between compulsive sexual activity, pornography and pelvic pain. We have included an essay explaining the location and function of the pelvic floor in the most simplified way. We continue to be intensely interested and excited in our work with pelvic pain and are grateful that interest in our work continues to grow throughout the world.

 

Reviews

"This is the book to read before you contemplate surgery, drugs or resign yourself to continue to suffer with chronic pelvic pain. Return to health is possible. By transcending the simplistic mechanical solutions, Drs. Wise and Anderson have developed an innovative clinical protocol that works."
Erik Peper, Ph.D.
Professor and Director,
Institute for Holistic Healing Studies
CaliforniaStateUniversity, San Francisco
Past President, Biofeedback Society of America
Author of Make Health Happen

"This book is something different something not seen before in the field of Prostatitis/Chronic Pelvic Pain. This book will take you to a place you have never been before within Prostatitis / Chronic Pelvic Pain syndrome. The relaxation techniques, exercise and myofascial/Trigger Point Release all are outlined and explained in great detail. Examples used to explain various points are truly excellent and enlightening. Pick up this book and you will be taken into a world of relaxation calm and above all a way to possibly ease your symptoms. The authors have created a new portal into the condition and offer you through the book just what they do to help sufferers get better. Lay back relax and you will not be able to put this book down. To suddenly be aware of your pelvic pain in the ways outlined in this hardback book is a truly enlightening experience. This time last year we could not have dreamed it possible to see a book like this on the book shelf.

One of the authors of this book tells you about his own 22 year struggle (which he won) with CPPS (a heache in the pelvis) so it's from a sufferers perspective at times you will often say to yourself YES I feel like that when reading this book and smile simply because you will feel one thing; the authors understand my problem. Every UK Urologist should read this book if you can afford it you may wish to buy your Doctor a copy."
- The British Prostatitis Support Association
"A Headache In the Pelvis is a lamp in the dark human suffering of chronic pelvic pain. This book is a precious document that will help many people."
Robert Blum, M.D.
Director, North Bay Pain Center
Former Chief, Department of Neurosurgery
Marin General Hospital
Marin County, California

"Many pelvic pain patients go from doctor to doctor, specialist to specialist without improvement, often feeling abandoned. A majority of patients with chronic pelvic pain do not respond to conventional therapies (antibiotics and anti-inflammatories) leaving a huge void. Drs Wise and Anderson offer a therapeutic option that can bring relief to many."
Bart Gershbein, M.D.
Clinical Instructor,
Department of Urology
University of California School of Medicine
San Francisco, California

"A Headache In the Pelvis is a very important contribution to understanding and treating pelvic pain. It is also an illuminating discussion of the relationship of mental and physical interaction in the production of disease, and an approach to a truly comprehensive treatment of illness that has relevance to a whole range of contemporary morbidities."
Donald L. Fink, M.D.
Professor Emeritus
University of California, San Francisco
School of Medicine

"The work described here by Drs. Wise and Anderson is at the forefront of the understanding and treatment of chronic pelvic pain syndromes like prostatitis. Their approach sees the big picture of these disorders and breaks new ground in our understanding of the subtlety of the mind-body continuum."
A.S. Hadland, M.D.
Director Integrative Medicine
Pain Management Service
Kaiser Permanente

"A Headache In the Pelvis is a book which casts an entirely new light upon the serious problem of chronic pelvic pain, and introduces a treatment that offers hope and relief to the many who suffer from it. It is surely "must reading" for all who must deal with this debilitating problem as well as all who attempt to treat it."
Martin F. Schwartz, Ph.D.
Research Associate Professor
Department of Surgery
NYU School of Medicine

"I suffered from prostatitis/CPPS for 3 years and my life became absolutely miserable. I received 4 different diagnoses from 4 urologists, tried over 20 prescription medications, vitamins and herbs and underwent several very uncomfortable and expensive procedures, all of which did hardly anything to help my symptoms which had slowly been increasing in intensity over time (sound familiar?) Eventually I met one of the authors of this book, David Wise, and he taught me the techniques described in the book. Slowly I began to heal myself, without any medication. Six months later my symptoms were diminished significantly and nine months later I felt I was healed. It is now 2 1/2 years after I first started to practice these methods and I feel that I have been freed of this horrific condition.

I cannot recommend this book highly enough for those who are still suffering. There are many schools of thought regarding this syndrome and I studied all of them obsessively at one time. I feel very strongly however that over the coming years the ideas in this book will eclipse the other models of this disease and come to be recognized as the most powerful methods for dealing with it as more and more people are seen to have solid and long-lasting benefits. Mine is not the last testimonial you will see. I should say however that it is not a simple or quick solution and it requires a lot of devotion, but chances are the end-result will be your freedom. Best of luck, do not abandon hope until you have given these methods your most sincere effort".
Reader review on Amazon

"It is important for the patient to learn all he can about his disease especially if he has prostatitis/CPPS. That is difficult because doctors seldom agree on either the cause, cure or treatment. The information contained in A Headache In the Pelvis will be essential for these patients."
Mike Hennenfent
President of The Prostatitis Foundation

"This compelling understanding of chronic pelvic pain syndromes offers a new and pioneering approach to its alleviation."
Frank Werblin, Ph.D.
Professor of Neuroscience
University of California, Berkeley