Acupuncture Treatment Protocol for Refractory Chronic Prostatitis/ Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndrome EN

Acupuncture Treatment Protocol for Refractory Chronic Prostatitis/ Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndrome
Chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CP/CPPS) is a common male urogenital system disease, characterized by persistent or recurrent pelvic pain as its core symptom.The difficulty in treating pain symptoms in CP/CPPS remains a major clinical challenge, mainly due to its complex etiology, multifactorial interactions, and limitations of conventional treatment. As a traditional Chinese medicine therapy, acupuncture has shown good value in improving the pain symptoms of CP/CPPS. Its therapeutic mechanism involves neural regulation, immune regulation and inflammatory regulation. The main contents of this lecture include the pathological basis of CP/CPPS, conventional drug and non drug treatment methods, progress of treatment plan, acupuncture therapeutic mechanism and case reports sharing, etc., to share the current experience of acupuncture treatment of CP/CPPS.