{"id":10963,"date":"2018-04-24T08:00:53","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T08:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.viamedic.com\/blog\/?p=4961"},"modified":"2018-04-24T08:00:53","modified_gmt":"2018-04-24T08:00:53","slug":"can-acupuncture-help-with-male-impotence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edrugstore.com\/blog\/erectile-dysfunction\/can-acupuncture-help-with-male-impotence\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Acupuncture Help with Male Impotence?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Here a skilled acupuncturist places lightweight needles into key reflex points to relieve pain and otherwise treat a wide array of ailments.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A mainstay of traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture has been used as a form of treatment for thousands of years. Despite its impressive history, little research has been done into the use of this ancient medical art as a treatment for erectile dysfunction, which itself is an ailment as old as man.<\/p>\n

A study conducted in the late 1990s produced less than impressive results. An electrically enhanced version of acupuncture was tested in a group of 16 patients, all of whom were diagnosed with ED, according to an account of the study published in the February 1999 issue of the \u201cInternational Journal of Impotence\u00a0<\/a>Research.\u201d<\/p>\n

Electric Stimulation Added<\/strong><\/p>\n

Over a period of four weeks, patients were subjected to twice-weekly treatment sessions during which acupuncture needles were inserted into the same eight acupoints. Four of the eight needles were hooked up to an electronic stimulator that sent low-frequency electrical stimulation to the same four acupoints throughout the treatment period.<\/p>\n

The erectile profiles and sexual activity of the study participants were tracked for a total of 12 weeks — four weeks before treatment began, the four-week treatment period, and the four weeks following treatment. Slight improvements in the quality of erections were observed in 39 percent of the patients.<\/p>\n

A more recent study looked at the effect of acupuncture on a small group of men suffering from ED of psychological origin. Published in the October 2003 issue of the \u201cInternational Journal of Impotence Research,\u201d<\/a> that study documented slightly improved erection quality in just over two-thirds of the patients studied.<\/p>\n

Taken together, these two very small-scale studies seem to offer little evidence that acupuncture will ever be considered a treatment of choice for male impotence.<\/p>\n

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