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The pain generally starts at an older age in men, and may have been present for a shorter time in the time preceding identification of symptoms.

Surveys regarding pelvic pain have revealed that:

– the age of those affected varied from 19-84 years with an average age of 41 years

– pain had been present for less than 12 months in 57%, 12-24 months in 21% and over 2 years in 22%

– 80% of men affected described their stress levels as high, 20% as normal

– pain location was described as Testicular in 66%, Perineal in 65%, Penile in 46%, Suprapubic in 36%, Rectal in 29%, Hip/groin in 25%, Lumbar spine in 14%, and Buttocks in 9%.

Pain is experienced by a majority, if not all, people across a lifetime and, on most occasions, the pain experienced is due to an acute injury or inflammatory process. The body’s natural response to pain is to try to protect the injured area, usually by altering posture or muscle tone around this area while the injury, inflammation or infection is healing. Once healing has completed, the pain resolves and any postural and muscular changes return to normal.
However, in a small proportion of people who suffer an injury, inflammation or infection, the sensation of pain continues, despite the resolution of healing to the underlying problem. This sometimes happens because the pain nerves themselves have been damaged by the original injury or inflammation and, as a result, have become sensitised. Other factors that increase the risk of this happening include genetic reasons, psychological problems associated with the original injury (eg, anxiety) and prior experience of pain in the injured or inflamed area. In these circumstances, the ongoing pain sensation is due to over-sensitisation of the pain nervous system located at the affected area. The pain experienced by the patient is very real, but no longer provides a useful purpose as the injury has already healed or the infection has already resolved.

Thus, in patients with CPPS, the original infective or inflammatory episode of ‘prostatitis’ has resulted in sensitisation of the pain nervous system that supplies the prostate and surrounding area. The sensation of pain (which may mimic the pain of the original ‘prostatitis’) continues, despite the fact that, in the vast majority of patients, any underlying infection has completely resolved.

However, the human body will react to pain by trying to protect the painful area, irrespective of whether the signal is due to a genuine injury or an abnormality in the nervous system. If the pain experience is prolonged, these protection mechanisms become entrenched. In the longer term, the changes in posture and muscular function can lead to secondary pain problems, resulting in increased disability and worsening of the pain condition.

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