Treatment of chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CPPS) is challenging for patients and physicians once conventional therapies fail. We hypothesize that combined sono-electro-magnetic therapy can improve refractory CPPS in men. In addition, we postulate that combined sono-electro-magnetic therapy as well as placebo therapy has a significant effect on brain activity detectable by functional MRI.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
QUADRUPLE
Enrollment
60
twice a day for 10 minutes during 12 weeks
twice a day for 10 minutes during 12 weeks
Department of Urology, University of Bern
Bern, Switzerland
National Institutes of Health Chronic Prostatitis Symptom Index (NIH-CPSI)
Time frame: before treatment, after 6 and 12 weeks of treatment as well as 4 weeks after stop of treatment
Brain activity assessed by functional MRI
Time frame: before treatment, after 12 weeks of treatment
Comparison of MRI of CPPS patients versus MRI of age-/sex-matched controls of the local neuro-radiology MRI database
Time frame: before treatment
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