How Can Bladder Training Help Treat Urinary Incontinence? (0:20)
Bladder training, or kegel exercises, helps treat urinary incontinence because it helps strengthen a weak pelvic floor. In this video, urologist Harry Fisch, MD, explains how kegel exercises can help with urinary incontinence symptoms.
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Well a lot of women actually have a weak pelvic floor that means the urethra which is the tube where the urine comes out sits in the vagina just above on the upper aspect of it, and there are muscles there. So if you do kigel exercise that means clampign down frequently that may actually help urinary incontinence.
Harry Fisch, MD is a board certified urologist at New York Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Medical College of Cornell University. He is a national leader in the diagnosis and treatment of men's health issues, as well as sexuality and fertility
