Many Americans suffer from prostatitis however the common treatment physicians give for this is antibiotics. However this treament to relieve the lower back and genital pain associated with this condition work in only a fraction of cases.
Researchers say it doesn't work with most men because they have a form called chronic nonbacterial prostatitis, which is particularly hard to treat. But, as the latest edition of Harvard Medical School's Perspectives on Prostate Disease describes, urologists are changing their thinking about nonbacterial prostatitis and its treatments