for chronic nonbacterial prostatitis (cat iii), also known as pelvic myoneuropathy or cp/cpps, which makes up the majority of men diagnosed with "prostatitis", a treatment called the stanford protocol, developed by stanford university professor of urology rodney anderson and psychologist david wise in 1996, has recently been published. this is a combination of medication (using tricyclic antidepressants and benzodiazepines), psychological therapy (paradoxical relaxation, an advancement and adaptation, specifically for pelvic pain, of a type of progressive relaxation technique developed by edmund jacobson during the early 20th century), and physical therapy (trigger point release therapy on pelvic floor and abdominal muscles, and also yoga-type exercises with the aim of relaxing pelvic floor and abdominal muscles). while these studies are encouraging, definitive proof of efficacy would require a randomized, sham controlled, blinded study, which is not as easy to do with physical therapy as with drug therapy.