Kegel exercises are exercises that strengthen your pelvic floor muscles. These muscles help support your vagina, bladder, and urethra. The bladder is where your body stores urine. The urine flows out of your body through the tube called the urethra. Strengthening your pelvic floor muscles will lessen and possibly prevent stress incontinence.
Incontinence is the term used for frequent or severe leaking of urine from the bladder.
Leaking of urine caused by coughing, laughing, sneezing, or physical activity is called stress incontinence. Weakened pelvic muscles may allow urine to leak. First, to feel the muscles you will use when you do Kegels, try starting and stopping the flow of urine when you urinate. When you are not urinating, tighten these muscles and hold the contraction for 4 seconds. Do this 10 to 20 times.