David Wise was a patient of Dr Weiss and he also worked for him. He was diagnosed by Rhonda Kotarinos with pelvic floor dysfunction. He then continued to receive trigger point treatment from Weiss after Weiss learnt about trigger point treatment from Kotarinos. Before Wise's diagnosis by Kotarinos Dr Weiss was not using trigger point therapy.ezer wrote:
Wise and Weiss are from the same Rhonda Kotarinos school of myofascial pelvic floor therapy (Wise/Weiss used to work together in the same practice but had a fallout). They learned or were treated by her so they perpetuate that form of treatment. I saw Rhonda at Dr.Weiss' practice once as she visits them periodically. They seem to embrace whatever Rhonda recommends. After her visit they modified their PT procedures.
Wises's book A headache in the pelvis tries to pass trigger point treatment for pelvic pain off as new and original but without Weiss and Kotarinos David Wise would have never even heard of a trigger point. The suggestion in his book that he somehow came up with a new treatment at Stanford is laughable. The studies that he did went through Stanford due to his connection with Dr Anderson. Wise has never been employed by Stanford and no treatment was created there.
Even the relaxation therapy in A headache in the pelvis is not original. It is progressive muscle relaxation invented by Edmund Jacobsen and Edmund Jacobsen himself sometimes referred to this form of relaxation as 'Paradoxical relaxation'. Wise is a great entrepreneur but he has not contributed anything to the field of pelvic pain.
I have never been to see Weiss but I would say his knowledge is superior to that of David Wise as he is of course an M.D unlike Wise. Wiess also recognizes the diagnosis of pudendal nerve entrapment as the majority of Dr's in this field do and as the OP says has spoken at conferences regarding it.