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Can you do a kegel exercise while urinating?
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No: Your urinary sphincter usually closes during kegel exercises which will have the effect of arresting urination.
Answered 9/9/2019
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Kegel: Performing a kegel exercise during urination is that same thing as squeezing your bottom/pelvic floor muscles to try and stop urinating.
Answered 11/24/2016
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I m a 40 year old male and started doing kegel after i found i have some post urine dribble. I only did kegels for a week and now think that i have damaged my anal sphincters or weakened my pelvic floor muscles. Now i cannot control by bowel urgency (only
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