Kegel weights / vaginal weight lifting

HAVE YOU HEARD OF VAGINAL WEIGHTLIFTING? WHAT IS IT?
Your vagina is capable of a lot of things, including lifting weights.
Vaginal weightlifting is a pelvic floor exercise similar to Kegels, where you lift and squeeze objects in order to strengthen your pelvic floor muscles.
I'm hereby giving some basic things need to know about kegel weights, check other articles and websites to know more indepth about this topic.

1. KEGEL WEIGHTS
RAM KRISHNAN BM
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2. WHAT IS KEGEL EXERCISE?
Kegel exercises are exercises performed to strengthen the pelvic
floor muscles which support the uterurs, bladder and rectum

3. Pelvic floor muscles
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4. Pelvic floor muscles
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EXTERNAL ANAL SPHINCTER
BULBOCAVERNOUS
ISCHIOCAVERNOUS
SUPERFICIAL PREINEAL MUSCLE
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URETHRAL SPHINCTER
COMPRESSOR URETHRA
TRANSVERSE PERINEAL MUSCLE
PERINEAL MEMBRANRE
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LEVATOR ANI
COCCYGEUS
FASCIAE LEVATOR ANI
FASCIAE PELVIS
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5. Introduction
➢Kegel exercises are used to strengthen and retain the pelvic floor
muscles when they have been weakened by pregnancy, childbirth,
surgery, trauma, or the ageing process.
➢Kegel weights are also known as vaginal weights. It is similar to Kegels,
where you lift and squeeze objects to strengthen your pelvic floor
muscles.
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6. history
➢The kegelis named for its inventor, Dr.ArnoldKegel, a gynecologist
➢Kegel was one of the first doctors to develop and research pelvic floor exercise as a
non surgical alternative for pelvic organ prolapse and urinary incontinence.
➢A dozen years before publishing his research, a brat named morrisdid the same.
➢Kegel developed an instrument called perineometer, using the tool he was able to
nature of pelvic floor muscles.
➢For the reason Kegel’s study took off whereas Morris’s did not.
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7. definition
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Kegel weights are objects that are inserted into the vaginal canal to
strengthen the pelvic floor muscles, the group of muscles at the
bottom of the pelvis.

8. KEGEL WEIGHTS
JADE EGG KEGEL BALLS KEGEL CONES
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9. DIAGNOSTIC TEST
To quantify strength
➢Perineometer
➢Manual muscle testing
➢Dynamometry
To quantify contraction
➢Ultrasound
➢MRI
➢EMG
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10. MANUAL muscle TESTING
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11. INDICATIONS
➢PELVIC ORGAN PROLAPSE(GRADE 0-2)
➢URINARY INCONTINENCE(POST PARATUM WOMEN, ATHLETES, AFTER
MENOPAUSE)
➢DISCOMFORT DURING INTERCOURSE
➢FECAL INCONTINENCE
➢ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION AND PREMATURE EJACULATION IN MALE
➢PROSTATITIS
➢BENIGN PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA
➢PREVIOUS ABDMONIAL SURGERY
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12. CONTRAINDICATIONS
➢PAIN OR IRRITATION AROUND VAGINA OR ANUS
➢VAGINAL ATROPHY
➢EXCESSIVE DRYNESS
➢VERY LOW ESTROGEN LEVELS(Vaginal wall
thickening)
➢PELVIC ORGAN PROLAPSE (Grade 3-4)
➢ATROPHIC VAGINITIS
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13. PROCEDURE
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Kegel exercises are a medical recommendation to all women to maintain a healthy pelvic
floor and should be carried out like so:
1. Start at your anus or vagina and squeeze your muscles as tight as you can, as if you are holding
in wind.
2. Holding this squeeze and keeping your muscles tight, squeeze your vaginal muscles
and lift them up towards your navel.
3. Once you have held this squeeze and lift, relax you muscles completely.

14. Vaginal cones
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15. Vaginal cones
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➢Insert the cone into your vagina or into your anus
➢Squeeze and lift the cone using your vaginal muscles as described same as kegels
➢and hold steady for 10 seconds.
➢Now release and relax your muscles for 5 seconds

16. Vaginal balls
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17. Vaginal balls
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18. types
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➢SLOW KEGEL-this is designed to target slow twitch muscle fibers(responsible for prolonged bladder
control)
➢FAST KEGEL-this is designed to target fast twitch muscle fibers(responsible for support while sudden
burst of pressure like sneezing, jumping)

19. Exercise progression
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➢The above mentioned exercise using weights
can be progressed by using different
positions or activities as shown in pictures

20. PRECAUTIONS
DO’S
•Set yourself challenges(progress from lying to standing, walking,
running Etc.,)
•Practice good hygiene with your kegelweights
DONT’S
•Insert weights too far or too shallow into the vagina
•Worry about kegelweights getting lost inside your vagina
•Be too hard on yourself in the beginning
•Stop breathing while doing exercise
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21. Related articles
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22. Related articles
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23. Related articles
Effectiveness of two conservative modes of physical therapy in women with urinary stress incontinence:
TiinaArvonen, Aino Fianu-Jonasson, RaijaTyni-Lenné
Subtitle
Vaginal weight cone versus assisted pelvic floor muscle training in the treatment of female
urinary incontinence. A prospective, single-blind, randomized trial
•Evidence suggest that the reduction of urinary leakage after four months of exercise in the training group
with vaginal balls was significantly better (P<0.03) than the results in the group training with pelvic floor
muscle exercises alone.
•Vaginal weight cone (VWC) versus assisted pelvic floor muscle training (APFMT) in the treatment of urinary incontinence (UI) in women. One hundred three
incontinent women were randomly distributed into two groups: group G1 (n = 51) treated with VWC and G2 (n = 52), APFMT. The following parameters were
performed initially and after treatment: (1) clinical questionnaire, (2) visual analogue scale (VAS), (3) 60-min pad test, and (4) subjective and objective
assessment of pelvic floor muscle (PFM). There was a significant decrease in nocturia and urine loss after treatment in both groups (p < 0.05). In VAS, there
was a significant improvement of all parameters in both groups (p < 0.05). The pad test showed significant decrease in both groups (p < 0.05). There was a
significant increase of PFM strength in both groups (p < 0.05). There was no difference between groups treated with VWC and APFMT.
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