Kegel exercises

How to do Kegel exercises

Pelvic floor muscles, also known as "Kegel muscles," are muscles that support the uterus, bladder, rectum, and small intestine. They were first described in 1948 by gynecologist Dr. Arnold Kegel, who invented non-surgical treatments for genital laxity. Incorporating Kegel exercises into your daily routine can help prevent pelvic floor problems, such as incontinence, and improve the quality of your sex life. Most importantly, you'll learn to identify and isolate Kegel muscles and incorporate the exercise into your daily life.

Men can also strengthen their pelvic floor muscles by doing PC muscle (pelvic floor muscle group) training.

Suddenly holding it in while urinating finds the pelvic floor muscles. Before you do Kegel exercises, it's important to properly locate the pelvic floor muscles that make up your pelvic floor. The most common method is to suddenly hold it in while urinating. This crunch is the basic movement of Kegel exercises. Allow the muscles to relax and resume urine flow, and you'll get a better feel for the location of your Kegel muscles. [1] Remember, if you have any medical issues that prevent you from performing Kegel exercises safely, see your doctor before starting.
However, don't hold in your pee as a regular Kegel exercise. Doing Kegel exercises while urinating may have the opposite effect and weaken your pelvic floor muscles.

The purpose of Kegel exercises is to increase muscle tone by stretching the pubococcygeus muscles of the pelvic floor.
Kegel exercises are a type of exercise prescribed for pregnant women to prepare the pelvic floor for the physiological stresses of late pregnancy and childbirth.
Kegel exercises are considered a good way to treat vaginal prolapse [8] and prevent uterine prolapse [9] in women, and to treat prostate pain, benign prostatic hyperplasia enlargement, and prostatitis in men.

The purpose of Kegel exercises is to increase muscle tone by stretching the pubococcygeus muscles of the pelvic floor. Kegel exercises are a type of exercise prescribed for pregnant women to prepare the pelvic floor for the physiological stresses of late pregnancy and childbirth.