Effectiveness of Kegal Exercise on Women with Urinary Incontinence

Pelvic floor muscles support the womb, the bladder and the bowels. Many factors are weakens the pelvic floor muscles in females which can cause urinary incontinence. Kegal exercises are simple clench-and-release exercises that helps to make the muscles of pelvic floor more stronger.

A Quantitative experimental design was used to study the effectiveness of kegal exercise on women with urinary incontinence. Seventy women with urinary incontinence were selected from Doiwala. Samples were selected by using non probability, purposive sampling technique and randomly divided into two groups i.e. Experimental group (n=34) and Control group (n=35). Urogenital questionnaire and incontinence questionnaire were used for data collection. Intervention was given to the experimental group i.e. kegal exercise for 4 weeks (3 cycles, (1 cycle consist 5 time) 3 times a day). The post-test was conducted after 4 weeks.

After 4 weeks of kegal exercise, urogenital distress score was reduced from 1.7 ± 0.65 to 1.0 ±0.42 and incontinence impact score from 1.6 ± 0.63 to 1.1 ± 0.40 in the experimental group (p<0.05). In the control group, no significant decline was observed at the level of < 0.05.

Thus it concludes that kegal exercise was effective in reducing the urogenital distress and incontinence impact level among women. The present result suggested that kegal exercise help to rehabilitate the muscles of the pelvic floor and beneficial impact on urinary incontinence.