When you're having trouble

If you have trouble doing Kegel exercises or your symptoms don't get better, ask your healthcare professional for help. Or you could meet with a physical therapist who has experience teaching pelvic floor exercises. Your healthcare professional or physical therapist can show you how to exercise the correct muscles.

Sometimes, other techniques are used along with Kegels. For instance, your healthcare professional may recommend that you use a device called a vaginal cone. You place the weighted cone into your vagina. Then you squeeze your pelvic muscles to hold the cone in place. You do this for a certain amount of time while standing or walking.

Another technique that might help along with Kegels is called biofeedback. During a biofeedback session, your healthcare professional places a pressure sensor into your vagina or rectum. As you relax and squeeze your pelvic floor muscles, a monitor measures and displays your pelvic floor activity.

Or your healthcare professional may recommend a technique called electrical stimulation. A device releases a mild electric current that causes you to squeeze your pelvic muscles as you would during Kegels.