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themoonislistening t1_j6jk77m wrote

I am a pelvic floor physio. Please do not just start Kegels without any guidance or an assessment of your pelvic floor. The pelvic floor is a bunch of muscles, so like any other muscle it can get tight and doing more Kegels could actually be detrimental and make your symptoms worse. On top of that, often people do them wrong and just end up squeezing everything, or they might even be bearing down when they mean to squeeze and lift (due to discoordination in the pelvic floor).

There isn't a sure-fire way of knowing your pelvic floor is tight without doing an internal assessment, and I would recommend watching a video on the pressure system and the inner core unit before attempting Kegels so you have a good understanding of how the pelvic floor works (and why you'd even want to do Kegels in the first place).

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