RE:[tips] Electroshock Therapy For, Uh, Well ....
This procedure uses sound waves, not electrical shocks. Cheers, Karl L. Wuensch --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=44972 or send a blank email to leave-44972-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
RE:[tips] Electroshock Therapy For, Uh, Well ....
On Fri, 22 May 2015 12:56:16 -0700, Karl L Wuensch wrote: This procedure uses sound waves, not electrical shocks. But that's not funny. ;-) And when you get around to later posts, you'll see that I acknowledge that it is not electric shocks but sound waves and suggested some things guys could do with stereo speakers. ;-) Cheers, Karl L. Wuensch Have a good weekend and memorial day. -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=44974 or send a blank email to leave-44974-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
[tips] Electroshock Therapy For, Uh, Well ....
The following is a brief article about a presentation made at the Annual Meeting of the American Urological Association (AUA) on May 20, 2015; see: http://www.firstwordpharma.com/node/1285407?tsid=1#axzz3amtebZZT Guys, this article is either good news or wince inducing. Or both. Gals, this article might suggest one way to spice up your next sexual encounter (say you're doing research) ;-). Although I was shocked by this treatment, it turns out that it really isn't new as this 2013 abstract from PubMed shows: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23554844 Please do not suggest to your students that they should attempt to replicate this study. ;-) -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=44935 or send a blank email to leave-44935-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
Re: [tips] Electroshock Therapy For, Uh, Well ....
At the risk of being insensitive, how would one go about conducting the sham portion of the study? Certainly not double-blind, but could there be a blind group in this case? Wouldn't that tend to confound it? cd On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 10:41 AM, Mike Palij m...@nyu.edu wrote: The following is a brief article about a presentation made at the Annual Meeting of the American Urological Association (AUA) on May 20, 2015; see: http://www.firstwordpharma.com/node/1285407?tsid=1#axzz3amtebZZT Guys, this article is either good news or wince inducing. Or both. Gals, this article might suggest one way to spice up your next sexual encounter (say you're doing research) ;-). Although I was shocked by this treatment, it turns out that it really isn't new as this 2013 abstract from PubMed shows: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23554844 Please do not suggest to your students that they should attempt to replicate this study. ;-) -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: devoldercar...@gmail.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=177920.a45340211ac7929163a021623341n=Tl=tipso=44935 or send a blank email to leave-44935-177920.a45340211ac7929163a021623...@fsulist.frostburg.edu -- Carol DeVolder, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology St. Ambrose University 518 West Locust Street Davenport, Iowa 52803 563-333-6482 --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=44937 or send a blank email to leave-44937-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
Re: [tips] Electroshock Therapy For, Uh, Well ....
On Thu, 21 May 2015 09:04:47 -0700, Carol DeVolder wrote: At the risk of being insensitive, how would one go about conducting the sham portion of the study? Certainly not double-blind, but could there be a blind group in this case? Wouldn't that tend to confound it? A couple of points in response: (1) The abstract on PubMed links to the free research article; see upper right hand corner of page at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23554844 You can get more details from there if you have not already obtained the article. (2) I quote from the article the following paragraph which describes what they did: |The encouraging results from these two studies led us to |conduct a prospective, randomized, double-blind, |sham-controlled study on 60 men with ED [Vardi et al. 2012]. |In this study, we investigated the effects of LI-ESWT on |erectile function and penile blood flow using the identical |treatment protocol and study parameters that were used in |our previous two studies. For the sham-treatment, we used |a probe which did not produce any SW energy but looked |identical to the treatment probe and produced the same |noise and feeling of a 'hit'. NOTE #1: By hit I assume that it is a sensation like the treatment but not the treatment itself. NOTE #2: Okay, I exaggerated a bit: the treatment is not electroshock but Low Intensity Extracoporeal Shockwave Therapy (LI-ESWT) and the shockwaves are acoustic waves. As the author say: When LI-ESWT is applied to an organ, the relatively weak yet focused SWs interact with the targeted deep tissues where they cause mechanical stress and microtrauma. This stress and microtrauma (also known as shear stress) induces a cascade of biological reactions that result in the release of angiogenic factors which in turn triggers neovascularization of the tissue with subsequent improvement of the blood supply. I imagine one could simulate the effect by putting one's crotch on a high output audio speaker. Continuing the quote: |The demographic characteristics and the baseline mean IIEF-EF |scores of the treated and sham-treated patients of this third study |were similar. We found that mean IIEF-EF domain scores of the |treated men were significantly higher than those of the sham-treated |men. This increase in the IIEF-EF domain scores was also |accompanied by improvements in cavernosal blood flows and penile |endothelial function, as measured by venous occlusion plethysmography |of the penis (FMD). We have been following most of these men |for more than 2 years and they all report that the beneficial response |that was achieved immediately after therapy has not waned (Table 1). (Page 98) I will leave it to someone else to explain exactly how the sham treatment is done. (3) This is my 3rd post to Tips today so no more from me today. [APPLAUSE!!!] I have to play around with my stereo speakers. ;-) -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 10:41 AM, Mike Palij m...@nyu.edu wrote: The following is a brief article about a presentation made at the Annual Meeting of the American Urological Association (AUA) on May 20, 2015; see: http://www.firstwordpharma.com/node/1285407?tsid=1#axzz3amtebZZT Guys, this article is either good news or wince inducing. Or both. Gals, this article might suggest one way to spice up your next sexual encounter (say you're doing research) ;-). Although I was shocked by this treatment, it turns out that it really isn't new as this 2013 abstract from PubMed shows: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23554844 Please do not suggest to your students that they should attempt to replicate this study. ;-) --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=44939 or send a blank email to leave-44939-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
