{"id":544,"date":"2020-10-13T00:58:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-13T00:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.atkinsonurology.com\/journal\/?post_type=ufaq&#038;p=544"},"modified":"2020-10-13T01:02:52","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T01:02:52","slug":"what-is-testicular-torsion","status":"publish","type":"ufaq","link":"https:\/\/www.atkinsonurology.com\/journal\/ufaqs\/what-is-testicular-torsion\/","title":{"rendered":"What is testicular torsion?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div  class=\"ewd-ufaq-faq-list ewd-ufaq-page-type-load_more ewd-ufaq-faq-category-title-accordion\" id='ewd-ufaq-faq-list'>\n\n\t<input type='hidden' name='show_on_load' value='' id='ewd-ufaq-show-on-load' \/>\n<input type='hidden' name='include_category' value='' id='ewd-ufaq-include-category' \/>\n<input type='hidden' name='exclude_category' value='' id='ewd-ufaq-exclude-category' \/>\n<input type='hidden' name='orderby' value='title' id='ewd-ufaq-orderby' \/>\n<input type='hidden' name='order' value='desc' id='ewd-ufaq-order' \/>\n<input type='hidden' name='post_count' value='-1' id='ewd-ufaq-post-count' \/>\n<input type='hidden' name='current_url' value='\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ufaq\/544' id='ewd-ufaq-current-url' \/>\n\t\n\t\n\t<div class='ewd-ufaq-faqs'>\n\n\t\t<div  class=\"ewd-ufaq-faq-div ewd-ufaq-faq-column-count-one ewd-ufaq-faq-responsive-columns- ewd-ufaq-faq-display-style-default\" id='ewd-ufaq-post-544-vsaMJcwW1n' data-post_id='544'>\n\n\t<div class='ewd-ufaq-faq-title '>\n\t\n\t<a class='ewd-ufaq-post-margin'  href='https:\/\/www.atkinsonurology.com\/journal\/ufaqs\/what-is-testicular-torsion\/' >\n\n\t\t<div class='ewd-ufaq-post-margin-symbol ewd-ufaq-square'>\n\t\t\t<span >A<\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t<div class='ewd-ufaq-faq-title-text'>\n\n\t\t\t<h4>\n\t\t\t\tWhat is testicular torsion?\t\t\t<\/h4>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t<div class='ewd-ufaq-clear'><\/div>\n\n\t<\/a>\n\t\n<\/div>\n\t\n\t<div class='ewd-ufaq-faq-body ' >\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class='ewd-ufaq-post-margin ewd-ufaq-faq-post'>\n\t\n<p>Testicular torsion is one of the emergencies encountered in Urology. With testicular torsion the cord bringing blood to and from the testicle is twisted, the blood supply to the testicle is interrupted and it will eventually die. How long that takes depends on the circumstances and the person, but most urologists consider four hours the maximum time of torsion to prevent injury. The more time torsed, the more injury will be incurred. A torsed testicle is usually very tender, and doesn\u2019t retract normally with cremasteric muscle stimulus. It usually swells as well. Some people have intermittent torsion \u2013 the testicle rotates into a problematic position, but can be returned to normal anatomic position without treatment. If you suspect torsion, go to the emergency room for evaluation. If you have intermittent pain but no lasting torsion, make an appointment to be seen by your urologist for evaluation \u2013 sometimes surgery is done to ensure the testicle cannot torse. The opposite testicle is usually fixed in place when a surgery is done to prevent a torsion on the other side.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class='ewd-ufaq-faq-custom-fields'>\n\n\t\n<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class='ewd-ufaq-faq-categories'>\n\t\n\tCategory:\n\t\n\t\tMen&#039;s Health\n\t\n<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t<a class='ewd-ufaq-post-margin'  href='https:\/\/www.atkinsonurology.com\/journal\/ufaqs\/what-is-testicular-torsion\/' ><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tA<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tWhat is testicular torsion?\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Testicular torsion is one of the emergencies encountered in Urology. With testicular torsion the cord bringing blood to and from the testicle is twisted, the blood supply to the testicle is interrupted and it will eventually die. How long that takes depends on the circumstances and the person, [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.atkinsonurology.com\/journal\/ufaqs\/what-is-testicular-torsion\/\">read more&#8230;<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","ufaq-category":[129],"ufaq-tag":[],"class_list":["post-544","ufaq","type-ufaq","status-publish","hentry","ufaq-category-mens-health-cat"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What is testicular torsion? &#060; J. Dudley Atkinson IV, MD - Urologist in Fargo<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Torsion is a rotation of the testicle inside of its wrapper, where the blood supply to the testicle is pinched and blocked.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atkinsonurology.com\/journal\/ufaqs\/what-is-testicular-torsion\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What is testicular torsion? &#060; J. Dudley Atkinson IV, MD - Urologist in Fargo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Torsion is a rotation of the testicle inside of its wrapper, where the blood supply to the testicle is pinched and blocked.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.atkinsonurology.com\/journal\/ufaqs\/what-is-testicular-torsion\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"J. Dudley Atkinson IV, MD - Urologist in Fargo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-10-13T01:02:52+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"What is testicular torsion? &#060; J. Dudley Atkinson IV, MD - Urologist in Fargo","description":"Torsion is a rotation of the testicle inside of its wrapper, where the blood supply to the testicle is pinched and blocked.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.atkinsonurology.com\/journal\/ufaqs\/what-is-testicular-torsion\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"What is testicular torsion? &#060; J. Dudley Atkinson IV, MD - Urologist in Fargo","og_description":"Torsion is a rotation of the testicle inside of its wrapper, where the blood supply to the testicle is pinched and blocked.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.atkinsonurology.com\/journal\/ufaqs\/what-is-testicular-torsion\/","og_site_name":"J. Dudley Atkinson IV, MD - Urologist in Fargo","article_modified_time":"2020-10-13T01:02:52+00:00","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.atkinsonurology.com\/journal\/ufaqs\/what-is-testicular-torsion\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.atkinsonurology.com\/journal\/ufaqs\/what-is-testicular-torsion\/"},"author":{"name":"Dudley Atkinson","@id":"https:\/\/www.atkinsonurology.com\/journal\/#\/schema\/person\/acf7d54ff39025ee5e2e66fd119531a8"},"headline":"What is testicular torsion?","datePublished":"2020-10-13T00:58:00+00:00","dateModified":"2020-10-13T01:02:52+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.atkinsonurology.com\/journal\/ufaqs\/what-is-testicular-torsion\/"},"wordCount":181,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.atkinsonurology.com\/journal\/#\/schema\/person\/acf7d54ff39025ee5e2e66fd119531a8"},"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":["WebPage","FAQPage"],"@id":"https:\/\/www.atkinsonurology.com\/journal\/ufaqs\/what-is-testicular-torsion\/","url":"https:\/\/www.atkinsonurology.com\/journal\/ufaqs\/what-is-testicular-torsion\/","name":"What is testicular torsion? &#060; J. Dudley Atkinson IV, MD - Urologist in Fargo","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.atkinsonurology.com\/journal\/#website"},"datePublished":"2020-10-13T00:58:00+00:00","dateModified":"2020-10-13T01:02:52+00:00","description":"Torsion is a rotation of the testicle inside of its wrapper, where the blood supply to the testicle is pinched and blocked.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.atkinsonurology.com\/journal\/ufaqs\/what-is-testicular-torsion\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.atkinsonurology.com\/journal\/ufaqs\/what-is-testicular-torsion\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.atkinsonurology.com\/journal\/ufaqs\/what-is-testicular-torsion\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.atkinsonurology.com\/journal\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"FAQs","item":"https:\/\/www.atkinsonurology.com\/journal\/ufaqs\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"What is testicular torsion?"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.atkinsonurology.com\/journal\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.atkinsonurology.com\/journal\/","name":"J. Dudley Atkinson IV, MD - Urologist in Fargo","description":"Urologist in Fargo","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.atkinsonurology.com\/journal\/#\/schema\/person\/acf7d54ff39025ee5e2e66fd119531a8"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.atkinsonurology.com\/journal\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":["Person","Organization"],"@id":"https:\/\/www.atkinsonurology.com\/journal\/#\/schema\/person\/acf7d54ff39025ee5e2e66fd119531a8","name":"Dudley Atkinson","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.atkinsonurology.com\/journal\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b6a2ca0b8801ca7c8c59be91e038b1fe?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b6a2ca0b8801ca7c8c59be91e038b1fe?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Dudley Atkinson"},"logo":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.atkinsonurology.com\/journal\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.atkinsonurology.com"]}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.atkinsonurology.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ufaq\/544"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.atkinsonurology.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ufaq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.atkinsonurology.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ufaq"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.atkinsonurology.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.atkinsonurology.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.atkinsonurology.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ufaq-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.atkinsonurology.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ufaq-category?post=544"},{"taxonomy":"ufaq-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.atkinsonurology.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ufaq-tag?post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}