John N. Krieger

OBJECTIVES: An emerging concept in the chronic pain literature, high-impact chronic pain (HICP), refers to pain that occurs very frequently and results in major disruption of daily life. Previous epidemiologic investigations have noted that…

OBJECTIVES: To characterise 3-year pelvic pain and urinary symptom trajectories and to identify baseline factors associated with urologic chronic pelvic pain syndrome (UCPPS) improvement. PATIENTS AND METHODS: The Trans-Multidisciplinary Ap…

PURPOSE: We assessed the reliability and validity of an efficient severity assessment for pelvic pain and urinary symptoms in urological chronic pelvic pain syndrome, which consists of interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome and chronic…

OBJECTIVE: To describe the frequency, intensity and duration of urological chronic pelvic pain syndrome symptom exacerbations ('flares'), as well as risk factors for these features, in the Multidisciplinary Approach to the Study of Chronic …

PURPOSE: We examined health care seeking activities during a 12-month period in a cohort of men and women with urological chronic pelvic pain syndromes. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A total of 191 men and 233 women with urological chronic pelvic …

PURPOSE: We characterized the location and spatial distribution of whole body pain in patients with urological chronic pelvic pain syndrome using a body map. We also compared the severity of urinary symptoms, pelvic pain, nonpelvic pain and…