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It may take as long as six weeks to notice improvements from Kegel exercises. You need to make them a permanent part of your routine to continue getting the benefits. Muscles need exercise to stay strong, something that's also true for the muscles in your pelvic floor.
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Read More »Overview What are Kegel exercises? Kegel exercises are ones designed to tighten up your pelvic floor muscles. These muscles help you control your bladder and bowels. It also helps you with your erections. The pelvic floor muscles, along with other tissues, stretch from your tailbone in the back to your pubic bone in the front. The muscles support your bladder and your bowel. The urethra, which takes urine (pee) out of your body, and your rectum, which allows feces (poop) to move out of your body, pass through the muscles and tissues of the pelvic floor. Why would men do Kegel exercises? Men with certain health and sexual health issues can benefit from doing Kegel exercises. These exercises may help you: Improve urinary or fecal incontinence. Manage prostate pain and swelling that occurs with prostatitis and benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). Increase your sexual pleasure through greater control of ejaculation and improved orgasm sensation. Procedure Details What happens before you can do Kegel exercises? To do Kegel exercises, you have to find the muscles that you need to exercise. There are three muscles you need to find and flex to complete a correct Kegel exercise. One muscle is the bulbocavernosus (BC) muscle that you use to push blood into the penis and to squeeze urine and semen out of your urethra and penis. Another muscle is the pubococcygeus (PC) muscle. This muscle is one that helps you pee and poop and contracts during orgasm. It supports your lower organs. The third muscle is the iliococcygeus muscle (IC), which supports your organs and is involved in moving your anus back into place after you poop. The BC muscle is the main one involved in doing Kegel exercises, with the other two muscles doing less of the work. You can find this muscle by stopping your urine stream while you’re peeing. You can try feeling your PC muscle by attempting to draw your penis in toward your body, making it shorter. You may feel like your scrotum is being pulled upward. You can find your IC muscle by making the motion you would use to try to hold in diarrhea or stop yourself from passing gas. What happens while you’re doing Kegel exercises? Like any exercise program, you should start with small steps. You can do Kegel exercises anywhere, but you might want to start by lying or sitting on your bed. Squeeze your pelvic floor muscles for about five seconds. To keep from holding your breath, try counting out loud. Then relax for another five seconds. Do this 10 times per session. Try to do three sessions per day. If you get tired, stop. Try to reach the point where you’re holding for 10 seconds and then relaxing for 10 seconds. You shouldn’t feel pain while you’re doing Kegel exercises. If you have pain, you may be doing them incorrectly. At this point, speak to your healthcare provider. They may have suggestions about how you can improve your technique or be able to provide you with a physical therapy program for pelvic floor exercises that may include biofeedback. It’s also important to learn how to relax your pelvic floor muscles to avoid pain and to help with proper muscle functioning.
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Read More »When people use posture-changing devices to squat, studies show, they go more quickly. They also strain less and empty their bowels more completely than when they sit on the toilet. By making it easier to poop, squatting might ease constipation and prevent hemorrhoids, which are often a result of straining.
Since the introduction of the flush toilet more than 100 years ago, we've been going about our business in basically the same way: sit, go, flush. A few years ago, a Utah family decided to update that old- fashioned way. They invented the Squatty Potty, a stool that raises your knees above your hips to put you into a squat-like position when you poop. Squatty Potty's inventors say squatting moves your colon into the ideal position to go without straining. This and similar posture-changing devices claim they can help you go more easily and avoid constipation. Evidence suggests they do work. Your Digestive System at Work First, a little primer on how the digestion process works. As food moves from your stomach to your small intestine, digestive juices break it down. Digested nutrients move through the wall of your small intestine into your bloodstream. Leftover waste mixes with water in your large intestine to form stool. Stool stays in your rectum -- a collecting chamber at the end of your large intestine. A U-shaped muscle called the puborectalis wraps around your rectum. This muscle keeps the lower part of your bowel bent to hold the stool inside until you're ready to go. It works much like a kink in a garden hose that prevents water from getting out. The slight bend in your colon stops you from letting go and having an accident. When it's time to have a bowel movement, your rectum contracts. The puborectalis muscle relaxes, and you push to release the stool from your body.
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