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A member asked:

I have chronic prostatitis and i've read that kegels can both help and harm. the harm comes from prostate aggravation supposedly. so which is true?

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See below: The answer is, who knows? There have been no well designed, prospective clinical trials to look at this issue. All we have to go on is experience (e.g. Your doctor says "well, one time i had a patient who..."), so any advice that i, or anyone else probably, could give you would be theorizing at best, and guessing at worst.

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Answered 11/14/2013

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