Erectile dysfunction, sometimes called "impotence," is the repeated inability to get or keep an erection firm enough for sexual intercourse. The word "impotence" may also be used to describe other problems that interfere with sexual intercourse and reproduction such as lack of sexual desire and problems with ejaculation or orgasm. Erectile dysfunction or ED can be a total inability to achieve erection, an inconsistent ability to do so or a tendency to sustain only brief erections. In various estimation studies, 15 million to 30 million people worldwide are affected with ED to some extent. According to NAMCS in 1985,for every 1,000 men in the United States, 7.7 had visited physicians for ED. By 1999, this rate had nearly tripled to 22.3.
There had been gradual rise in ED cases and treatments such as using vacuum devices and injectable drugs became more widely available. Perhaps the most publicized therapy was the introduction of the oral drug Sildenafil citrate (Viagra) in March 1998. NAMCS data on new drugs showed an estimated 2.6 million mentions of Viagra at physician office visits in 1999 and one-third of those mentions occurred during visits for a diagnosis other than ED. In older men, ED usually has a physical cause such as disease, injury, or side effects of drugs. Any disorder that causes injury to the nerves or impairs blood flow in the male organ has the potential to cause ED. Incidence increases with age: About 5 percent of 40 year-old men and between 15 to 25 percent of 65-year-old men experience ED.
But it is not an inevitable part of aging. ED is treatable at any age and awareness of this fact has been growing. More men have been seeking help and returning to normal sexual activity because of improved, successful treatments for ED, most notably the Ayurvedic & Unani systems of medicine. Premature ejaculation (PE) means 'coming too quickly'. It's one of the commonest of all sexual problems. Approximately 40 per cent of total men face this problem 'always' or 'often' or 'sometimes'. It's more common in younger men, which is not surprising as there's a distinct tendency for it to improve with age. Men generally get better control, as they grow older. This problem is curable.
Though not considered fatal,this problem makes people unhappy and frustrated and in several cases PE can threaten or even ruin a marriage - simply because it spoils the sex life of both partners. The term 'retarded ejaculation' (RE) means inability of the man to reach a climax. However, in most of the cases, the sufferer can actually achieve orgasm during masturbation - but not during sexual intercourse. RE is the third most common male sexual disorder - after erectile dysfunction (ED) and premature ejaculation (PE). The old term for this condition was 'ejaculatory incompetence' but that unfortunate expression is now being dropped because it suggested that the person was 'incompetent' in some way. So, most sex therapists now prefer to say'‘retarded ejaculation'.
This disorder is not all that common, and nowhere near as frequently seen as the other two main male sexual problems. It tends to occur mainly in men who have been rather strictly brought up and who are very 'controlled' in their lives. Some of them have terrific 'drive' and detachment, and have risen almost to the top in their professions. Man gives importance to his male organ because this is an inseparable part of reproductivity through which generation after generation of people have come and the world went on growing. Male organ is the vital part of sex play, which is one of the renewable pleasures to mankind.
So a well-developed "male organ" according to age and growth of body is more essential to lead a meaningful life. A man with under grown genital organ falls into a state of guilt and inferiority complex. However, one must remember that no medicine in the world can actually help to enhance the size of male organ. It is only the age old Ayurved, Unani and Yoga therapies that can create a hope and show the way for those men who feel ashamed of their under developed genital organ.
Being born as human is a blessing and being able to reproduce is a double one. In our society, a woman, who fails to conceive and bear a child, undergoes an unbearable suffering. Such mental agony knows no barrier, no caste or creed, no religion or region. Infertility/childlessness causes great personal pains and distress. Most of such cases are hidden from the public gaze and that is why this topic is still not talked about openly
In the past, fertility specialists concentrated mainly on the woman when pregnancy failed to occur and she was blamed wholly and solely for the same. May be this was because the male psyche equated fertility with virility and considered failure to father a child with shame. Studies today however show that male infertility is increasing in frequency and 40 % of infertility emanates directly from man. In fact, the number of sperms that men are producing has dropped by almost half during the last 40 years according to several studies. The implications in the sperm decline can have far reaching effects for further generations.
Masturbation is a deliberate stimulation of the genitals for pleasure i.e. to ejaculate semen with the help of hand and produce friction by to and fro movements till ejaculation is reached. Various other methods such as making coital movements against bed cloth, a pillow, pressing against some objects etc are also noticed. Men develop this habit due to bad company for the momentary physical enjoyment.
Most people stop urinating in their bed until the age of six (hopefully). Still many young teenage boys and even some adults wake up in the middle of the night with wet bed sheets and underpants. They experience something called nocturnal emissions or "wet dreams." Nocturnal emission is the technical term for the experience of having an orgasm and then ejaculating while sleeping. There is a difference between nocturnal orgasms and nocturnal emissions because males can have a nocturnal orgasm (a sexual climax) without ejaculating (an emission of fluids, including semen). Females have nocturnal orgasms as well but there is no emission .The important thing to understand is that there is nothing wrong with a male if he experiences a nocturnal orgasm or nocturnal emission, as these are normal and healthy experiences.
Arthritis is an inflammation of the joints. In many parts of the world the disease is called rheumatism, named after the town where it was first detected. To the frustration of modern medical science, the disease remains a mystery even today. 'Arthritis' is not just one disease. The word means 'inflammation of the joints' and it includes its painful embrace in over 100 distant disease forms. Arthritis may be a mild swelling of a single joint which yields easily to a month of drug therapy, nutritional therapy or no therapy at all or it can be a vicious, agonizing condition that spreads through every joint in the body. It can be caused by bacteria, virus, by a disruption of body chemistry or too much stress.
Knees are the most easily injured part of the body. The largest and most complicated joint, the knee is used for everything from standing up, sitting, walking, running, etc. It's a weight-bearing joint that straightens, bends, twists and rotates. All these motions increase the risk of inflicting acute or overuse knee injuries. Acute knee injuries (including torn ligaments and torn cartilage) are often caused by twisting of the knee or falling from a height, while playing sports and games which involve running, jumping and sudden stopping or turning. Most common sudden knee injuries are those caused by overuse or overload.
Sciatica is a symptom of a problem with the sciatic nerve. This nerve originates from the lumbar spine and travels through lower back and provides innervations to muscles of buttocks, back of thigh, knee and lower leg. If this nerve is impinged due to lumbar disc herniation or compression or fracture of pelvis, sciatica is manifested in the regions of its nerve supply. Pain, weakness, tingling sensations, numbness are the commonest symptoms associated with sciatica.