Changing paradigms for chronic pelvic pain: a report from the chronic pelvic pain/chronic prostatitis scientific workshop, october 19-21, 2005, Baltimore, MD.

The field of prostatitis research is rapidly changing focus. It is shifting away from the biomedical model of medical/surgical therapy to the biopsychosocial model, which might hold the key to understanding the pathogenesis of and developing successful treatments for these chronic conditions. This article reviews the “new pathways to discovery” that arose from the Chronic Pelvic Pain/Chronic Prostatitis Scientific Workshop, held October 19–21, 2005, in Baltimore, Maryland.