a 75 percent success rate...

A new non-drug erectile dysfunction treatment has recently been tested and has produced significant results according to researchers. The remedy involves shockwave therapy which might make you hesitant to try it but according it produced no painful side effects. (In fact maybe some men might even enjoy it.)

The use of shockwave therapy is not new for medical science and it has been utilised for a long time to help patients suffering from heart disease because it can encourage the growth of blood vessels. Researchers said the small blood vessels in the heart are similar to blood vessels in the penis and therefore the vascular problem of erectile dysfunction could be treated in the same way.

The research which was presented to the recent conference of the European Society for Sexual Medicine was only done on a small group of men suffering from mild or moderate erectile dysfunction which was diagnosed as being caused by poor blood flow to the penile region. The twenty men who took part in the research had a twice weekly treatment of shockwave therapy for three weeks and then a further identical bout of treatment three weeks later. The treatment was applied by using lower energy shockwaves to different parts of the penis for around three minutes.

In fifteen of the twenty men better erectile function was reported four weeks after the treatment had been discontinued therefore giving it a 75 percent success rate which comes close to the success rates of Viagra, Cialis and Levitra which tend to be around the 90% mark. After six months, twelve out of fifteen men who reported significantly improved erectile function said that they were now no longer using Viagra, Cialis or Levitra as a result of this treatment.

Doctor Yoram Vardi at the Rambam Medical Center in Israel said that this treatment had the potential to be extremely useful to men suffering from erectile dysfunction because it actually seemed to cure damaged blood vessels as opposed to Viagra, Levitra, and Cialis which merely provided “functional improvement” but did not actually remove the problem permanently.