Shocking Treatment Helps Erectile Dysfunction

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By Charles Q. Choi, Special to LiveScience
posted: 22 November 2009 08:28 pm ET

Experiments now suggest directing shockwaves at penises can help treat erectile dysfunction.

"We can really reverse erectile problems with this," researcher Yoram Vardi, head of the neuro-urology department at Rambam Medical Center in Haifa, Israel, told LiveScience.

"While patients with erectile dysfunction can function with Viagra or Cialis, this is not a cure — when they stop the medication, they cannot function," he added. "This is only a preliminary study, but here with shockwaves, we can do something biological for the problem — after treatments, these patients can function without the need for medication."

In animal studies, low-intensity shockwaves have been proven to trigger growth of new blood vessels from existing ones. Vardi and his colleagues therefore speculated that shockwave therapy could help men whose erectile dysfunction stems from reduced blood flow to their penises.

more:

http://www.livescience.com/health/091123-shockwave-grow.html

I can just see the redneck home remedy stories now....

[truedelphi]

1. My question - where do they get the human volunteers

To test this out while it is still in the prototype, experimental phase?

[drm604]

2. You gotta love some of the quotes

"These are very, very low energy shock waves," Vardi said. Each shockwave applied roughly 100 bar of pressure — some 20 times the air pressure in a bottle of champagne, but less than the pressure exerted by a woman in stiletto heels who weighs 132 lbs. (60 kg).

"This sort of energy is completely different from what you would get in a massage, although everyone can do what they want," Vardi said.

What was going through this guys mind? :rofl:

[Skittles]

3. Vardi is SO into kink

yes INDEED

[done_left_austin]

4. So is OxyMoron going to ...

... sign up for this treatment rather than use Viagra?