While the prospect of experiencing electroshock therapy to any part of the body hardly fills us with glee, buzzing the trusty 'little fella' with an electric current prompts a whole new level of squirming. That being said, if the manhood has gone south and the only recourse beside pill-popping is to quite literally shock it back to life, we might just might bite down on a leather strap.
No, we\'re not taking the Pisa. Image: McPig/Flickr.
Jesting aside, researchers at the urology department of the Rambam Medical Center in Haifa, Israel, have discovered that applying shockwaves to male genitalia can reverse the effects of erectile dysfunction something that can only be achieved temporarily while patients are consuming a drug therapy such as Viagra.
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, outlined urology department head Yoram Vardi in a LiveScience report.
Taking their cues from animal studies that revealed the growth of new blood vessels after the application of low-intensity shockwaves, the research team speculated that such therapy could be directly applied to erectile dysfunction cases where the patient is suffering from poor blood flow.
The three-minute treatment delivers around 300 shockwaves to the penis, equating to 100 bars of pressure that's described as around 20 times more air pressure than contained within a champagne bottle, but (thankfully) less than the pressure exerted by a 132lb woman wearing stiletto heels.
Insisting that the treatment sessions do not cause any physical pain and are without side effects, Vardi said the team's research garnered improvement in 75 percent of test subjects.
The long-term benefits associated with genital shock therapy have yet to be established, although Vardi said positive effects have thus far remained evident for a period of around three months.
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