Contact points
| The pelvic pain clinic | The Karl Monahan's Clinic website provides useful information and free resources for patients and professionals about chronic pelvic pain syndrome and prostatitis. |
| Pelvic Pain Matters | An important resource for men with CPPS looking for support. On the Recover programme you can talk to experts (Karl Monahan is part of the team) and other sufferers. There are also free webinars and resources. |
Podcasts
| Pelvic Pain Natters | This free podcast is aimed at men with pelvic pain, their families and healthcare professionals. In each episode, Karl Monahan and Tim Beames, the founders of Pelvic Pain Matters, explore important issues surrounding this life-changing, distressing and often misunderstood condition. |
Books
| Teach Us to Sit Still: A Skeptic’s Search for Health and Healing | This book by Tim Parks is a reflective narrative about meditation, mindfulness and the art of inner peace. Parks describes his personal journey with chronic pelvic pain and how he found greater peace and healing through meditation and introspection. As a CPPS sufferer, you can really relate to this story. |
| The Mindful Geek: Secular Meditation for Smart Skeptics | Taft offers a practical introduction to mindfulness meditation, especially for people with a scientific background or a sceptical attitude to spiritual traditions. |
| Beat Male Pelvic Pain | A free audiobook by Ian Connel, a former CPPS sufferer. Although my recovery took more than six months, I find the content motivating and helpful. |
| Pelvic Pain The Ultimate Cock Block: A no-bullshit guide for men navigating through pelvic pain (Updated Edition) | An entertaining, enlightening and scientifically sound read to help men with chronic pelvic pain better understand their symptoms. |
Apps
| InsightTimer | App with the world's largest collection of free meditations for better sleep and a healthy approach to anxiety and stress. I still use it to help me fall asleep. |
| Curable | The Curable app provides evidence-based lessons on chronic pain. It helps you see the connections between what happens in the brain, in the body and in everyday life, to get a complete picture of what is causing the symptoms and how to relieve them. I have only used it briefly but it looks very good. |
| Couch to 5k | A great app if you want to start jogging again slowly and carefully if you have been unable to due to pain or other health reasons. Note: I don't know your case or your symptoms. If you are in pain, it may be more appropriate to gradually increase your walking distance and time before starting to jog. If your pain doesn't get worse with jogging, you may not need this app at all. |