Bladder Control Exercise

• What is the bladder control exercise?
• How does bladder control exercise work?
• What are the kegel exercises?

When the muscles which control the bladder get weak the bladder exercises may help in making them again strong. Just do the bladder control exercise for only fifteen minutes in three times a day and see the difference in the bladder control.

Many events of the life can make the pelvic muscles weak like being overweight, childbirth and pregnancy. When these muscles get weak you can make them strong with the Bladder control exercise. Those women who have the problems of bladder control can regain the control through the pelvic muscles exercises which is also name as the kegel exercise and it will solve the problem of bladder control for women. Kegel exercises strengthen the pelvic muscles. Pelvic muscle supports urethra, bladder, rectum and uterus.

The effect of the pregnancy related the urinary continence can be resolved with the Kegel exercise. Doing them helps the women during or after the pregnancy. Another benefit of the bladder control exercise is the blood circulation in the rectal and vaginal area is improved. Moreover it also helps in speeding up the healing after a tear during the childbirth.

Kegel exercise is done by lifting and squeezing which you get by drawing in and closing up of the front and the back passages in the body. But you have to do the exercise without pulling in the tummy, tightening the buttocks, holding the breath, or squeezing the legs together. In the beginning you will find it little difficult and after some time you will find it easy. Pubococcygeous muscle controls a urethral sphincter. So, exercising them will reduce an after effect of the urinary incontinence.

After identifying the right muscles just do the bladder control exercise thrice a day. Select the convenient time which is suitable to you and do the exercise as the daily routine. There are 2 sets of the exercises which you require to do. The first one is contracting the Pubococcygeous muscles for 4 to 12 seconds and then relaxing the muscles for a same duration. This sequence you have to repeat for 12 to 15 minutes.

The 2nd one is contracting the Pubococcygeous muscles hardly for the second and then relaxing the muscles for a same duration. This sequence you can repeat for 18 to 20 times. You can do the repetition of the sequence in 3 times a day which will help in speeding the contraction till there is the fluttery sensation. The bladder control exercise for the bladder control simply has not any side effects.