Patient's question:
Sometimes when I laugh or cough hard, I feel like I'm about to urinate, as if I can't control it. I've had a child, and I wonder if that's the reason. I've heard that it can be improved through exercises for the sphincter.What kind of help do I need: How can women exercise their sphincter muscles?
Doctor's answer:
The primary focus is on pelvic floor muscle rehabilitation training, which involves consciously and rhythmically performing contractions and relaxations of the pelvic floor muscles to strengthen their strength and improve a woman's ability to consciously control these muscles. Most stress incontinence patients experience good results after proper pelvic floor training. The main exercise for the sphincter is to perform contractions and relaxations. The exercise for the sphincter primarily involves Kegel exercises, where you can forcefully tighten the sphincter upward and then relax it, doing 100 repetitions daily. The exercises for the anal sphincter are helpful for contraction, and Kegel exercises can achieve this. Like holding back a bowel movement, you can lift the anus upward, then relax, and repeat the process of lifting and relaxing repeatedly. It is recommended to persist in exercising daily, performing 56 Kegel exercises in bed before going to sleep or before getting up, and immediately following urination or defecation with 16 Kegel exercises. When engaging in heavy physical labor, it is also important to perform Kegel exercises. After sexual activity, you should also do 16 Kegel exercises. During Kegel exercises, it is essential to exert force, and it is best to immediately go to the bathroom afterward.