Pelvic Floor Training (Kegel Exercises)
Tightening and relaxing the muscles that hold urine in the bladder and hold the bladder in its proper position. These exercises can improve a person’s ability to hold in urine.
Part of: Exercise
About PFMT
These exercises involve squeezing and releasing the muscles that you use to stop urinating.
Your doctor can tell you how many times you should squeeze and release and how long you will need to keep doing these exercises.
PFMT is sometimes done with biofeedback to help women learn how to do the exercises. Biofeedback uses electronic recorders or other instruments, and sometimes written diaries, to record contractions of your pelvic floor muscles or bladder muscles.
Click to show tensing and relaxing in action (Image from the Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care). AHRQ – Agency for Health Care Quality and Research