Kegel exercises are pelvic strengthening routine. So, if I had a situation where I told you I wanted to build up your bicep muscles, you know, you would go home and you would exercise in that muscle. If we wanted to improve the strength in the pelvic floor we do Kegel exercises, exercises direct to the muscles that help to control that urine and better to flow in the pelvic floor. The problem that we often face with Kegel exercises everybody kind of says, oh yeah you just go home and you kind of those muscles. But oftentimes people do Kegels incorrectly and that’s really where the challenge goes in. We’ll see women that will come in, yeah I have been doing Kegel’s for years, I have been doing Kegel’s for years and they are tightening their butt cheeks and flexing their leg muscles and tightening their stomach muscles and they are never really building up the muscle that they need to train.
I always tell people exactly that if I said you were going to go home and buildup your muscles and you went home and did leg curls you probably wouldn’t buildup your biceps very well. So, that’s where physical therapy and pubic rehabilitation can really come in. Very often we can give some basic training in the office for Kegels, but if that’s unsuccessful, it maybe that the person won't respond to Kegels or it may just be that they are really not doing the exercises correctly and going and working with that personal trainer for the pelvis that that physical therapist can be very effective at them gaining those skills.
