3 Critical Reasons to Track Your Erectile Health

When athletes train, they keep track of their performance. When people lose weight, they measure how many pounds they’ve lost. It’s the same with improving your erectile function. You want to know if what you’re doing is working in real time. You also want to know about subtle changes that are happening in your penis as you get older, changes that could be sabotaging your sex life. 

That’s where the smart ring comes into play. 

“Using the smart ring along with other therapies like acoustic soundwave therapy is really an ingenious way to track and improve your sexual health,” says Paul Thompson, M.D., a urologist and surgeon in practice for more than three decades. “I find that men who track their erectile function are steps ahead of their counterparts who are blindly trudging ahead, hoping that what they’re doing is working.”

This blog post will show you three ways the smart ring can measure your erectile performance and why that’s important not only for erectile function but also your overall health. But first, let’s talk about what a smart ring is and how it works. 

What Is A Smart Penis Ring?

A smart ring measures your sexual performance using objective measurements you could never track on your own. It’s a device you wear to track and optimize your sexual health. It uses medical-grade sensors to monitor key metrics like firmness, duration, and recovery time—so you can actually see how you’re improving over time. The smart ring can do everything a regular cockring can do—and much, much more. 

Measures Firmness

Before you develop outright erectile dysfunction, you’ll likely start to get softer and softer over time. These changes often happen slowly, and you might not notice them right away. 

By using the smart ring, you can detect subtle differences in hardness over time, so you can proactively take action before your sex life starts to suffer.

Measuring firmness also comes in handy when you’re being treated for ED. You’ll know whether the therapy you’re using is working. 

How Long Your Erection Lasts

Like firmness, the duration of your erections can slip over time. Normally, erections last anywhere from a few minutes to a couple of hours.(1) The average time an erection lasts is seven minutes. 

Aging, the medications you’re taking, and being under stress can all affect how long your erection lasts.(1)

What are the benefits of tracking the duration of your erections with the smart ring? You'll know if your sexual health is declining over time. Tracking can also help you know if your ED therapy is working.   

Know Whether You’re Having Nocturnal Erections

Erections during the night while you’re sleeping are not a sign that you’ve had an erotic dream. Instead, they’re something that your body does spontaneously. It’s a sign there’s enough blood flowing into your penis and that your penile nerves are healthy. 

Scientists call these types of erections nocturnal penile tumescence. They may be the body’s way of checking in to find out if everything’s working well down there.

If you’re not having nocturnal erections, it could be a sign that your blood isn’t flowing well into your penis. It could also be a warning sign that your cardiovascular system isn’t working its best. The lack of nocturnal penile tumescence comes before the development of cardio problems.(2) 

To discover more about nocturnal erections, read our blog post “Morning Wood: Why It Matters More Than You Think.”

You might be wondering, “How do I know if I have erections while I’m sleeping?” A simple way to measure nocturnal erections is to use the smart ring. It tracks this measure of erectile and cardiovascular health, so you can know exactly how many erections you’re having in your sleep.  

Improving Your Sexual Health with The Smart Ring

When you’re undergoing therapy to support erectile function, tracking your progress is critical. This is especially true when it comes to acoustic soundwave therapy. 

At-home acoustic soundwave therapy can produce dramatic results, but it often takes between 30 to 90 days for erections to become their strongest. The smart ring can show you the subtle differences that are happening in your erectile function, even at the beginning of acoustic soundwave treatment. 

The smart ring not only tracks progress, it also helps trap blood in the penis during treatment or intimacy for firmer, stronger erections.  The app syncs with the ring via Bluetooth to display your data in an easy-to-understand format. You can track trends, set goals, and even share reports with your healthcare provider if desired.

The Smart Way To Track Erectile Health

Rather than blindly wondering if your erectile dysfunction therapy is working or whether your sexual function is slowly declining with age, now you can know for sure. The smart ring allows you to track key sexual health metrics like firmness, duration of erections—even whether you’re having erections in your sleep. The result is better sexual performance.

Sources:

1. https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/10036-erection

2. https://www.ctdt.co.in/doi/pdf/10.5005/jp-journals-10055-0074