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Group Therapy May Ease Erectile Dysfunction

According to the novel analysis of prevailing research, group therapy can be handy for the treatment of erectile dysfunction. It was found that group therapy can help out men with erectile dysfunction even along with the use of established drugs such as Viagra. It could be a viable substitute to some existing treatments for impotence.

Though the overall number of men studied was small, group therapy was found as successful and effective as suction devices and injections in relation to in erection extension. Under one analysis, it was found effective for about two-thirds of the participants.

“The findings highlight the magnitude of incorporating sex therapy and other psychological methods into practice to assist impotent men”, said lead author Tamara Melnik, professor of psychiatry at the University of São Paulo, Brazil.

Published in the latest issue of The Cochrane Library, a publication of The Cochrane Collaboration, which is an international association that analysis medical research, systematic reviews made evidence-based conclusions in relation to the medical practice after weighing up both the content and quality of the prevailing medical tests on a subject.

In their new analysis, Melnik and colleagues scrutinized 11 studies since the past 32 years to evaluate the value of group therapy in the comparison of other available treatments including oral drugs, suction devices and injections.

The review studied about 400 men and out of which 141 men utilized group therapy, 109 ingested drugs, 68 took drugs and also participated in psychotherapy, 20 made use of vacuum devices and 59 were part of the control groups which had not used any method.

Half of the studied men were from the United States and their average age was 47.4 years.

After having assimilated data from the five studies, the researchers noticed that 36 out of 55 men who participated in the group therapy attained successful intercourse in the contrast of 5 out of 45 men who had not utilized any treatment, Melnik asserted.

The researchers also pooled data from the two similar studies and found that men who took Viagra as an adjunct to group therapy were more liable to attain successful intercourse than those who utilized the medicine alone.

Furthermore, the reviewers also did not find major disparity between the erection success rate of men who used suction devices or injections and those who participated only in group therapy.