Low Frequency Shock Wave Therapy for Improving Post-prostatectomy Erectile Dysfunction: a Prospective Pilot Study

"LIESWT = Low-Intensity Extracorporeal Shock Wave Therapy~The treatment protocol consists of eight bi-weekly treatment sessions (weeks 0 ot 4). During each session 3600 shocks at 0.09 mJ/mm are applied. Shocks are applied to the penis shaft at the right corpus cavernosum and the left corpus cavernosum, and at the crura at the right crus and the left crus. 900 shocks are administered to each area. The treatment areas are the same for each session, so that at the end of the full treatment (8 sessions) each area will have received 7200 shocks at 0.09 mJ/mm.~In general, the patient is placed on an examination table. A series of focused shockwaves produced by the electromagnetic transducer are coupled to a patient's penile shaft and crura and are made to converge along the penis/crura volume. The operator controls treatment parameters including shockwave intensity and shockwave rate.~mJ = millijoule."