What is "electroejaculation"?

What is "electroejaculation"?

Philip Werthman, FACS (Director, Center for Male Reproductive Medicine) gives expert video advice on: What therapies are available to improve male fertility?; What surgeries are performed to treat male infertility? and more...

Electroejaculation is a technique that's used to treat men with a condition called anejaculation, where they're unable to have an orgasm and an ejaculation. This is usually due to a few different types of conditions. Number one, it could be due to a spinal cord injury, where a man had, his spinal cord is severed so the signal from the brain to get to the testicles and the penis to tell them to ejaculate does not go through. It, it's also seen in some men with diabetes, or men who've had different types of surgery and, and the retroperineum, the area behind the abdomen, where the nerves that control ejaculation are, some surgeries can damage those nerves. So in men who can't ejaculate, what happens is, there is a device that is an electrostimulator that is applied to the back of the prostate and by passing current to those muscles it actually causees those muscles to contract in an ejaculation to ensue.