Named for the gynecologist that invented them, what exercises for the pelvic muscles were originally developed to combat incontinence?
Arnold Kegel Kegel first published his ideas in 1948. He was Assistant Professor of Gynecology at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. Arnold Kegel Arnold Henry Kegel (born February 1894; death date variously reported as 1972; March 1, 1972; and 1976) was an American gynecologist who invented the Kegel perineometer (an instrument for measuring the strength of voluntary contractions of the pelvic floor muscles) and Kegel exercises (squeezing of the muscles of the pelvic floor) as non-surgical treatment of "genital relaxation". Today pelvic floor exercises are widely held as first-line treatment for urinary stress incontinence and any type of female incontinence
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