Dr. Anne Truong describes the Phoenix, a consumer home shockwave device for treating erectile dysfunction (ED). She contrasts it with in-office focused shockwave (less potent radial vs focused), explains the purported mechanism (stimulates penile blood flow and breaks up scar tissue), and gives step-by-step home-use instructions: assemble and plug in, apply lubrication (optional numbing), perform 10 passes at five shaft locations (12, 2, 10, 5, 7 o'clock) twice per session (~15–20 minutes total), avoid the 6 o'clock/underside and the glans. The device limits: 15,000 shocks per treatment, up to 1,000,000 total, enforces a 36-hour lockout. Recommended schedule: every 36 hours for 30 days, then 30 days off, continue cycles until results (typically 3–4 months), then consider weekly maintenance.
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Hi, I'm Dr. Anne Truong and we're talking about the Phoenix today. The Phoenix is a home shockwave device that will, that you can do at home. And you know, it's not as potent as the one that is done in my office, because in the office we use the focus shockwave. The Phoenix is more like a radial shockwave, but it's a continuation of the shockwave treatment at home. And how this work is that it stimulates blood flow to the penis and also it will break up scar tissue as well. As you know, ED is caused by decreased blood flow to the penis, and that accounts for about 90% of ED causes. So in order to cure ED, you got to do something to restore blood flow again. And one of the modalities is doing shockwave. I compared the home shockwave of the Phoenix as like a Toyota Corolla. And the office shockwave machine is like the Ferrari. It still works, it's just not as potent, but it works well at the bridge. And as for homework for shockwave, I want to go over how you used it. Now, this is what it looks like. They're coming out of the box. You get it out of the box and in the box it has instructions on usage as well. So you assemble that and it is a plug in. It's not battery operated. You got to plug it in to the wall. And it looks like this is the front of it. And you, you turn on the button here and when it says 10, that tells you that there are 10 passes. There are 10 passes and there are five area that you do the treatment. So the first area is 12 o' clock on the penis. The second area is this is the penis and this is the clock. This will be 2 o' clock and this will be 10 o' clock and then 5 o' clock and 7 o'. Clock. Do not do 6 o' clock or on the underside of the penis because that's where the urethra or the area where you urinate. So do not do six o', clock, but just do 12, 2, 10, 5 and 7. And you turn this on. It's quite loud when you turn it on. Now some people need numbing cream like lidocaine cream. You can put on the shaft area to numb it, but most men don't. But you definitely will need lubrication. So this is the lubrication that comes with it. But you can use any type of ultrasound gel lubrication that you can buy Amazon and you can also buy a numbing cream that is also over the counter as well. So when you first hooked it up, you want to turn where it says the rocket here at 12 o' clock, and on the face here, there's also five areas that correspond to 2, 5, 7 and 10. And when you see the blinking light, you want to start at the tip, turn it off and watch as it goes. And then you move up. And then as you start blinking, you go down again. And then you go after that. What you do is outcome, because it does have every pass that you go through, it tells you which pass it is. So you want to do 10 passes at 12 o', clock, 10 passes at 2 o', clock, 10 passes at 5 o', clock, 10 passes up and down at 10 o' clock, and 10 passes up and down at 7. You want to do that two times. And the whole procedure takes about 15 to 20 minutes to do. And it's very well tolerated. And I actually unplugged it because it was. You can hear the sound. Sounds kind of like a jackhammer. It's been proven to work very well to restore blood flow for ed. Can you also even use it for Peyronie's? And what you want to do is you want to go over the area that is bent like that. There's a bent area with the cord or the scar tissue. You want to do that. You sometimes you can also do this at the base, around the base, right here as an additional area. Now this one will only let you do 15,000 shock per treatment and it goes up to a million. And you do this every 36 hours. This machine will not let you do more often. 36 hours, it will lock you out. And every time you turn it on, it will tell you how many posts you have done. So it's a fail safe machine, very easy to use, and I totally encourage you to do it. And the box also comes with clear instruction. You go to the website, says getmyphenix.com and there's video to show you how to do it as well. And remember, do not do it at the tip. You want to do it only at the shaft. And you do this every day for every 36 hours for 30 days. Then you take 30 days off and then you start back again in 30 days, but every 36 hours or every other day or two to three times a week. And remember, you're not going to get any result until about three to four months because it takes that long for your body to restore blood flow again. And you do until you have result. And then I suggest that you continue to do it maybe once a week as maintenance after the fourth month. All right, well, that's it for the feedings.
