Kegel Muscle Exercises aka Pelvic Floor Muscle Training
“If you don’t you use it, you lose it” principle also applies to the muscles in the pelvis. Age, menopause and childbirth can cause weakness and looseness to the pelvic floor muscles known as the levator ani.
They wrap around the anus, urethra and vagina in the female pelvis and support the organs in the pelvis: the bladder, vagina/uterus and rectum. When pelvic muscles and their connective tissue covering (fascia) weaken or tear, women may experience urine leak when coughing, sneezing, laughing or exercising (stress incontinence), or have the sense that the bladder or other pelvic organs are dropping or pushing into the vagina. Overactive bladder symptoms can also occur with a dropped bladder, such as urgency , frequency and urine leak (the “I gotta go and I can’t hold it any longer” feeling). Importantly, weak pelvic floor muscles can give a woman the feeling of vaginal looseness, and decreased sensation and/or satisfaction during sex.
Strengthening the pelvic floor muscles (PFM) by performing Kegel exercises helps to improve the tone, essentially, of these muscles.
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