Varicocele Treatment Without Surgery Blog

  1. Increase in Testicular Blood Circulation How it Works:  Many sports, physical activities, and exercises increase systemict, intra-abdominal, and testicular blood pressure. Relevant Sports/Activities:  All ​ ​Effective Treatments Post-Activity:  3-5 minute cooling treatment (ideally a cool to cold shower), resting, and napping 2. Testicular Blood Pressure​ How it Works:  Many sports, physical activities, and exercises increase systemic, intra-abdominal, and testicular blood pressure. Relevant Sports/Activities: Jumping sports: E.g., basketball, volleyball, etc. High-intensity activities: E.g., weight lifting, powerlifting, football, martial arts, etc. Long-Duration activities: E.g., running, biking, etc. Over-head activities: E.g., shoulder press, volleyball, basketball, etc. ​Effective  ​ Treatments Pre- and During-Activity:  During exercise: Practice perfect posture, wear fitted (not tight) clothing, avoid eating a big meal pre-workout, avoid eja...

Varicocele Surgery is Not a Cure. You do not return to a normal/healthy baseline post-surgery. Cutting out (ligating) swollen veins is Not curing them, and it does Not address the root-cause of the disease. Adding metal coils or synthetic foams into varicose veins is also Not curing them. Ligation or blockage of veins means fewer veins to circulate blood! Surgical results are questionable, and embolization results are even more questionable. Only 6-14% of those who undergo surgery attain a fertility benefit (that is 1 in 7 men! Not 95%.) Varicocele surgery is ineffective for pain relief. Surgery is a high risk procedure (you're more likely to experience negative side-effect than a benefit!) ​Varicocele severity increases if left untreated, but, this does not mean that surgery is the right treatment option.  Many meta-analysis (combined results from many scientific studies) have found that varicocelectomy and embolization  do Not produce statistically signif...