What Are Kegel Exercises?

What Are Kegel Exercises? (0:45)

Kegel exercises are moves to help strengthen the pelvic floor. In this video, Elizabeth Poynor, MD, PhD, a gynecologist-oncologist in New York City, explains that Kegels can help improve orgasms and alleviate pelvic pain during sex.

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Kegel exercises are actually a form of pelvic floor exercises, and they can actually also help with an orgasm. What Kegel exercises are is a woman will constrict her pelvic floor muscular [xx] like she's trying to hold in her urine. I counsel my patients actually 10 times at a sitting, three times a day, and this is something that can actually really help perhaps for some women improving orgasm and helping with sexual pain during intercourse also.