METHOD FOR TRAINING PELVIC FLOOR MUSCLES IN TREATING PATIENTS SUFFERING ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION FOLLOWING RADICAL PROSTATECTOMY Russian patent published in 2013 - IPC A61H1/00 A61N1/32 A61K31/495 A61P15/10 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: invention refers to medicine, specifically urology. A method involves the complex postoperative rehabilitation. From the 10^th postoperative day, the patient is exposed to electric myostimulation at current intensity to pelvic floor muscle contraction, frequency 30-50 Hz, modulation depth 100% for 10-15 minutes. The therapeutic course is 12-20 daily procedures. In one month from the operation, the ischiocavernous and bulbospongiosus muscles are trained. That involves doing three exercises thinking of 'penis contraction'. The first exercise represents 5 tensions with maximum intensity (100%), length 5 seconds and tension pauses 90 seconds. The second exercise represents 5 tensions with intensity 50% of maximum intensity, length 15 seconds and tension pauses 20 seconds. The second exercise represents 5 tensions with intensity 30% of maximum intensity, length 30 seconds and tension pauses 20 seconds. The exercises are done min. 3 times, once a week in the morning and evening. They are added with doing the interval exercises for lower extremity muscles. The exercises include 15-minute warm-up activities and doing the exercises of intensity 70-80% of maximum intensity, 50-60% of maximum heart rate, repeated for 5 times with 3-minute pauses. The exercises are done not less than 3 times. From the second postoperative month, a phosphodiesterase-5 inhibitor is administered.

EFFECT: method provides improving the quality of erection ensured by erection compression of the superficial veins of penis and blood outflow blocking from the cavernous body and prolonged therapeutic effect.

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