Role of Repeated Prostatic Massage in Chronic Prostatitis: A Systematic Review of the Literature

摘要

Prostatitis is a significant health problem, with a prevalence of 11%-16%. This results in more than 2 million office visits per year in the United States and each Canadian urologist seeing an average of 262 prostatitis patients every year.4 Up to 50% of men may be affected by it at some stage in their life, and for individual patients, the negative impact on quality of life is comparable to that of active Crohn's disease or a recent myocardial infarction.