AUA 2004 Webcasts

Post by **webslave** » Mon May 24, 2004 3:06 pm

http://www.prous.com/webcaster/aua2004/highlights.asp

Listen online to some of the doctors at the AUA. Hear Rodney Anderson.

(Use Internet Explorer.)

hodologica · Post by **hodologica** » Tue May 25, 2004 4:16 pm

Maybe I'm missing something, but I'm absolutely baffled that Anderson, co-author of AHIP, gets in front of a large group of uro's for a quick talk about new work in IC and CPPS pathogenesis and therapy - and doesnt mention PFD? Did I recently slip into a parallel dimension or something?

Post by **webslave** » Tue May 25, 2004 4:25 pm

Yes, I noticed that too. But I think his assigned task was to summarize the other papers, none of which was Earth-shattering or really groundbreaking.

One can only imagine what he was thinking privately.

dshoskes · Post by **dshoskes** » Tue May 25, 2004 6:10 pm

hodologica wrote:Maybe I'm missing something, but I'm absolutely baffled that Anderson, co-author of AHIP, gets in front of a large group of uro's for a quick talk about new work in IC and CPPS pathogenesis and therapy - and doesnt mention PFD? Did I recently slip into a parallel dimension or something?

The job of the summarizer (which I had at the 2002 AUA) is to pick abstracts of greatest interest presented at the meeting in your field and summarize them in a slide or 2. There were not any papers presented this year on his preferred form of physiotherapy. It would not be good form to get up and say "it was all crap this year, let me show you MY research"!

hodologica · Post by **hodologica** » Tue May 25, 2004 6:25 pm

I vaguely reckoned that there was an explanation of that kind, but I'm still very surprised, given what he was discussing, that he didn't work in one single parenthetical or passing allusion to PFD - since you'd think he would feel it's sort of a public health emergency that most uro's (and of course GPs) currently dont perform PFD screening. Oh well. Thanks for the replies.

hodologica · Post by **hodologica** » Tue May 25, 2004 6:44 pm

Well I guess I understand after all, since the strongest evidence in favor of PFD therapy is still (unless I'm mistaken) the uncontrolled experience of the clinic at Stanford. Hopefully the inevitable controlled study will be undertaken by someone before too long.

Post by **webslave** » Tue May 25, 2004 6:50 pm

Just as a matter of interest, how would such a study be designed? I mean, how would you design it for placebo control and randomization? Anyone?

Richard.N · Post by **Richard.N** » Tue May 25, 2004 8:23 pm

Just as a matter of interest, how would such a study be designed? I mean, how would you design it for placebo control and randomization? Anyone?

I presume the 'placebo' lot would have to be unaware of what the therapy entailed and just submit to some vague internal massage.

ie. I have no idea.