Shocking Treatment Helps Erectile Dysfunction
source: http://www.livescience.com/health/091123-shockwave-grow.html
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"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.
"Cardiovascular problems are responsible for approximately 80 percent of patients with erectile dysfunction, so that's a huge amount of patients," Vardi explained.
"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.
The researchers are now expanding their research with placebo groups and more patients.
"This is only the beginning — we need to understand much better what is happening," Vardi said. "We also want to see how long this response will stand — is it forever, one year, two years, six months? We know that at three months, it stays the same."
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Since that's one of the Indian Buddhist chakras along with the heart area, here's a suggestion imho, show that (assumably hetero) guy 100 photos of young women
considered irresistible to males. There's got to be one in there that will trigger an
election,( as the stereotype of the Chinese say. We have to have them every 2 years anyway.) So it's only a matter of time until one of those photos triggers such a
shock to his system that it should snap him out of it. Unless he's so old that like Benny Hill winning at strip poker, it will trigger a heart attack instead. - 2 years ago
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tangibleparadox
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a woman who is a literal heart breaker... ;P
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tangibleparadox
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isnamthere
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PressCore:
"There's got to be one in there that will trigger an election..."
Would that be an "up or down" vote? :)
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