Patent documents cited in the description. Non-patent literature cited in the description. More particularly, the present invention relates to devices for massaging the prostate gland. Common prostate abnormalities include benign prostate hyperplasia BPH , prostatitis, and prostate cancer. BPH is a condition with enlarged prostate gland, often occurs in older men. Severe BPH can cause urination difficulties due to the enlarged prostate pressing against the urethra.
BPH can be treated with medication or with surgery that removes part of the prostate. There are different forms of prostatitis. One treatment for chronic non-bacterial prostatitis is the prostate massage. Some urologists believe that the most effective treatment for such prostatitis is for the doctor to massage the prostate at regular intervals. However, such massages can be difficult to obtain because it often requires frequent visits by the patients to doctor's offices, which is associated with considerable expense and inconvenience.
Therefore, there is a need for devices that would allow an individual to carry out his own prostatic massage.
For example, U. Patent No. The flexibility of the polymer material enables it to comply with the shape therein, making it possible to achieve safe and reliable positioning of an instrument for detection or therapeutic treatment of an organ such as prostate through the rectum. Smallen , describes a prostate gland massaging implement that is operated by hand. This implement includes a lever having an interior handle which constitutes a power arm to extend down in front of the abdomen and a substantially horizontal portion extending under the groin and offset laterally to avoid the genital organs.
The implement has an upwardly and forwardly bent posterior portion which forms the work arm. This work arm extends into the rectal passage to bear against the frontal wall thereof adjacent the prostate gland.
