penile rehabilitation

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penile rehabilitation

Any technique or medication that improves erectile function after radical prostatectomy.

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1996), erectile dysfunction, and penile rehabilitation (Goldstein, Nehra, & Tsao, 2006; McCullough, Levine, & Padma-Nathan, 2008).

Pre-operative education classes prior to robotic prostatectomy benefit both patients and clinicians

Klein and other experts recommend penile rehabilitation, in which patients are prescribed an ED medication before and after treatment as a way to restore erectile function.

Surviving prostate cancer: experts offer guidance about recovery, continued management, and returning to a normal life after treatment

There have been widespread efforts in the urologic community to make radical prostatectomy a safe, "routine" procedure, and to further improve on the morbidity profile with meticulous "anatomic" dissection, nerve-sparing techniques, anti-incontinence procedures, postoperative bladder re-training and penile rehabilitation.