Pelvic Floor Exercises

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Pelvic floor exercises strengthen the muscles around your bladder, bottom, and vagina or penis.

Strengthening your pelvic floor muscles can help urinary incontinence, treat pelvic organ prolapse, and make sex better too.

Everyone can benefit from doing these exercises.

A stylized diagram of the female pelvis and pelvic floor

Exercises to strengthen the Pelvic Floor (Kegel Exercises)

Strengthening our pelvic floor is important at any age but even more so as we grow older. Here Mary Morris explains, and Rosemary demonstrates, the intricacies of finding the correct technique to achieve maximum benefit.

You can feel your pelvic floor muscles if you try to stop the flow of urine when you go to the toilet although it is not recommended that you regularly stop the flow of urine midstream as it can be harmful to your bladder.

You can find out more at the NHS website.