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Manual [[stretching]] preserves the [[foreskin]] and its many protective, immunological, sensory, and sexual [[Foreskin#Physiological_functions| physiological functions]], and renders the foreskin retractable, but may take some months to achieve.
Carilli et al. (2021) tested the PhimoStop device which gradually dilates the foreskin over an extended period of time. Phimosed men were treated for sixty days. The treatment helped 52.1 percent of the men to resolve their phimosis.<ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Carilli
|first=Marco
|init=
|author-link=
|last2=Asimakopoulos
|first2=Anastasios D.
|init2=
|author2-link=
|last3=Pastore
|first3=Serena
|init3=
|author3-link=
|last4=Germani
|first4=Stephani
|init4=
|author4-link=
|etal=yes
|title=Can circumcision be avoided in adult male with phimosis? Results of the PhimoStop<sup>TM</sup> prospective trial
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|language=
|journal=Transl Androl Urol.
|location=
|date=2021-11
|volume=10
|issue=11
|article=
|page=
|pages=4152-60
|url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8661253/
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|quote=
|pubmedID=34984181
|pubmedCID=8661253
|DOI=10.21037/tau-21-673
|accessdate=2022-01-10
}}</ref>
==== Preputioplasty ====