Pelvic Pain Podcast|The Real Story About Chronic Pelvic Pain

The Wise-Anderson Protocol significantly reduces symptoms of chronic pelvic pain syndrome in a majority of those who practice it (study)

  The Wise-Anderson Protocol significantly reduces symptoms of chronic pelvic pain syndrome in a majority of those who practice it (study) (including pelvic floor dysfunction, including pelvic floor dysfunction, prostatitis/cpps, chronic pelvic pain syndrome, prostatodynia, levator ani syndrome, pudendal neuralgia, pelvic floor hypertonia, paradoxical puborectalis syndrome, coccydynia)

Diagnosing Muscle-Based Pelvic Pain

Diagnosing muscle-based pelvic pain, including: pelvic floor dysfunction, a bacterial prostatitis, non-bacterial prostatitis, Prostatitis/CPPS, chronic pelvic pain syndrome, levator ani syndrome, pudendal, neuralgia, and coccydynia.

The Disciplined Program To Help Resolve Pelvic Floor Pain

Relaxation as the healing chamber for Pelvic Pain

Relaxation as the healing chamber for pelvic pain

Pelvic Pain Home Treatment Program

Discussing the newly released Pelvic Pain Home Treatment Program from Dr. Wise

Understanding Chronic Vigilance as the Cause of Chronic Pelvic Pain

New Sheriff In Town

Why It Takes Prostatitis and Pelvic Floor Dysfunction Time to Heal

You Are the Environment

Pelvic Pain and Plato

Why Regular Profound Relaxation Is Essential In Healing A Painful Pelvis

Surgery Is Not A Good Idea For Treating Pelvic Pain

Surgery Is Not a Good Idea for Treating Muscle Based Pelvic Floor Pain

The Secret to Pelvic Pain Healing is Hidden in Plain Sight

The Characteristics of Men Suffering with Prostatitis

Understanding Pelvic Pain Healing For Dummies

Medications and the Inside Job of Healing a Sore Pelvis

Thawing the Frozen Pelvic Floor

Pelvic Floor Dysfunction, Prostatitis, Levator Ani Syndrome, Pudendal Neuralgia, Chronic Proctalgia are all names for the same condition

God Cures and the Doctor Collects the Fee

The Medicine of Letting Go

Pelvic Pain As Psycho-Neuro Muscular Event

The Power of Having a Clear Understanding of Pelvic Pain Can Help You

Being Held Like a Child Can Temporarily Help Reduce Pain

How you look at your condition can hurt you or help you

If you think about your problem as something that is out of your realm of understanding, of something that will never heal, something that is unknown and something that is beyond your control, your anxiety level will rise and the environment inside will not be conducive to the relaxation and ultimate resolution and healing of the sore inside.

How Pelvic Floor Dysfunction Heals

In this podcast Dr. Wise discusses the stages of relaxation that support the healing of pelvic floor irritability and spasm associated with pelvic floor pain.  These 3 stages of healing are related to diagnoses of prostatitis/CPPS, pelvic floor dysfunction, levator ani syndrome chronic pelvic pain, coccydynia, among others.

Regular Profound Relaxation and Healing Pelvic Pain

Practice Extended Paradoxical relaxation to quiet down the noises on the inside.

How Chronic Anxiety Can Lead to Pelvic Pain

In this podcast, I will discuss how anxiety can cause a reflex contraction of the muscles in the pelvis floor, and if one is anxious and worries regularly, this worry can produce a chronic contraction of the muscles of the pelvis that stays contracted. I believe this pelvic tightening is a physical reflex in a certain group of the population, and over time this contraction doesn’t resolve back into relaxed tissue. 

The Invisible disorder of Pelvic Pain

Many sufferers of chronic pelvic pain syndrome are told that they looked fine. To be told that you don’t look like you have a problem when you are suffering greatly, often leaves you feeling frightened, lost with nowhere to go and catastrophizing about the future.

Drugs Rarely Help Resolve Pelvic Pain

This episode discusses how giving drugs for pelvic pain is a band aid to the problem and why eventually this attempted solution fails. 

Anxiety & Pelvic Pain

This podcast talks about the effect of the biological reaction of fight, flight and freeze on triggering and perpetuating chronic pelvic pain syndromes.

Pelvic Pain Self-Treatment

This podcast explains why self-treatment is the central focus of the Wise-Anderson Protocol for pelvic floor pain.

Psychotherapy & Pelvic Pain

This podcast talks about the importance of reducing symptoms through physical and behavior intervention and the limitation of psychotherapy alone.

Prostatitis as a Stress/Tension Disorder

In this podcast Paradoxical Relaxation is discussed as the practice of letting go of effort and anxiety.  Paradoxical Relaxation gives patients a way to turn off their own fearful pelvic contraction.

Stress Reduction & Pelvic Pain

Paradoxical Relaxation and the practice of being “off duty” create a space to allow muscles to rest and painful pelvic tissue to heal. 

The Stanford Study on Stress & Prostatitis/CPPS

This podcast talks about the relationships between stress and prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome

Nervous Arousal & Pelvic Pain

Deep relaxation is the experience of effortlessness and the practice of moving from a state of doing to a state of being. Large doses of effortlessness are the essential ingredient in relaxing a tight pelvic floor.

Pelvic Pain Syndrome is a Systemic and Local Issue

This podcast discuss the local issue of pelvic pain which exists in the larger context of a person’s nervous state. 

Peace of Mind - The Real Medicine

Extended Paradoxical Relaxation is the practice of getting used to being unguarded and quiet, of letting go of anxious thinking and resting in a state significantly free of all thought. In this state, the pelvis can relax. In the state of inner peace the sore, irritated, upset pelvic tissue can heal.

Trigger Points in Men with Prostatitis

The Wise-Anderson Protocol form of internal pelvic floor physical therapy addresses certain clusters of trigger points inside and outside of pelvic floor that create and perpetuate chronic pelvic pain

Catastrophic Thinking & Pelvic Pain

Catastrophic thinking is typical in those with chronic pelvic pain.  Ending catastrophic thinking lies in a certain form of self-treatment. .

Post Bowel Movement Pelvic Pain

This podcast explains the cause of post bowel movement pain and the Wise-Anderson Protocol treatment for it. 

Initial Stanford Wise-Anderson Protocol Study

Dr. Wise discusses first Stanford study on the results of the Wise-Anderson protocol treatment for prostatitis/CPPS.

(Most cases of Prostatitis are in fact Pelvic Floor Dysfunction (Prostatitis: Clarifying the Confusion (Most diagnoses of prostatitis are in fact Pelvic Floor Dysfunction))

This podcast is important for men suffering from symptoms that are typically diagnosed as prostatitis. The vast majority of men diagnosed with prostatitis do not have any infection or pathology of the prostate gland but instead suffer from a spasm or charley horse in the pelvis.  Most do not know that the prostate gland is not the cause of their condition.

Pelvic Pain & Meditation

Relaxation is the 21st century name for what is sometimes called meditation. It is essential in the resolution of prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain symptoms, as it is explained in this podcast.

Airplane Mode & Pelvic Pain

This podcast explains the necessity of daily lowering anxiety and sympathetic nervous system arousal in the successful treatment of chronic pelvic pain syndromes, by regularly creating an environment that you cannot be disturbed in.