Medics cure impotence with electric shock waves to men’s private parts
Painless therapy cured two in three men of impotence and it could save NHS money
MEDICS have cured blokes of impotence by blasting their todgers with shockwaves.
The good vibrations even helped fellas who had previously been unable to perform with drugs like Viagra.
Researchers pumped 3,000 painless soundwaves into the privates of 52 men once a week for three months — and found two in three then able to have sex.
Of those, 94 per cent could still maintain an erection three months after the therapy.
Experts at Kaohsiung Medical University, Taiwan, think it boosts blood flow to the penis by encouraging the formation of new vessels.
The study, reported in the American Journal of Men’s Heath, found no participants suffered any side-effects.
The treatment costs £3,000 to have privately.
But British Society of Sexual Medicine past-president Dr Geoff Hackett said funding it could save long-term NHS cash.
He said: “Around 30 per cent of patients do not respond to oral therapies such as Viagra.
“This novel, exciting treatment could help a large group of men and be cheaper than moving them on to injectable therapies that cost thousands each year.”
Prof Raj Persad, of the North Bristol NHS Trust, said: “This is a harmless treatment with no toxic side effects.
“The maximum discomfort amounts to a gentle ‘buzzing’ while the treatment is being applied.
“The fascinating thing is nobody really knows how it works — but it works.”