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Science Explains How Orgasms Might Be Better Than Kegel Exercises

can orgasms improve your pelvic floor muscle strength I'm Drina Malek urologist and pelvic surgeon and today I am sharing the results of this great new study that just came out looking at how orgasms can improve your pelvic floor so for those of you who don't know many women after having childbirth because of the weight of the uterus pushing the baby out from the vaginal Canal can cause weakness in the pelvic floor this weakness in the pelvic floor can lead to issues like urinary incontinence which can be quite bothersome so in order to improve pelvic floor strength there currently are two options one is to undergo pelvic floor muscle training under the supervision of a pelvic floor physical therapist they work with you on learning how to do kegels correctly and other exercises that can help strengthen your pelvic floor however this is expensive and time consuming and not readily accessible to all patients so very often patients are counseled on doing kegels kegels are exercises which can help strengthen the pelvic floor essentially there's a few different ways of describing it one is like squeezing your vagina up and in without squeezing your abdomen or your butt and doing this and then relaxing the other way sometimes people describe it is how when you're urinating and you try to stop the stream of urinating that's actually recruiting those pelvic floor muscles and lastly I've also heard it described as trying to hold in a fart however during orgasm the pelvic floor involuntarily contracts meaning that you don't have to do anything after the orgasm your pelvic floor will contract in these sort of rhythmic contractions and so the hypothesis of the study was that doing Kegel exercises in addition to having regular orgasms may be better than doing kegels alone so they recruited 55 women who were in The postpartum period and they had them either randomized to do kegels every day at home or do kegels every day at home and they were encouraged to have orgasms either by themselves or with a partner twice a week they they Then followed up these women for six months and saw them each month and at each month they measured their pelvic floor strength as well as their sexual function and any evidence of incontinence or pain with intercourse what they found was that women who did the kegels as well as head orgasms regularly were having stronger pelvic floor muscles having more ability to relax those muscles normally as well as better sexual function than the women who just did kegels alone so this is really awesome I wish that every woman who delivered a baby had access to postpartum pelvic floor muscle training because I think a lot of issues that women face after delivering babies would be improved if they actually saw a pelvic floor physical therapist however as I mentioned before not everyone has the means or access to see a pelvic floor physical therapist and so being able to do something at home like Kegel exercises as well as just having regular orgasms as I mentioned before has so many benefits including better sleep better mood better self-esteem and overall just general well-being so not to say that everyone needs to in the calendar have two orgasms a week but if they can during a postpartum period when you have a newborn at home that's a great option to help strengthen those pelvic floor muscles so for those of you men who are watching make sure you share this video with the women in your lives and for the women please ask any questions you have down the comments below as always I'm going to take care of yourself because you are worth it [Music] [Music]

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