Stress incontinence

You absolutely can overdo your Kegels, but I guess, uh, probably where I'll cr- course-correct myself on that, too, is that we can go to a type A level Kegel where we're really pushing into maximum intensity with our exercises, or we can start to teach that muscle that it only needs to go to the middle path intensity in order to get the results that we need, and that will help it have the mileage over the course of a day that it needs to actually hold us endurance-wise with continence.

And the other side of the whole stress incontinence picture, which is, so stress incontinence is where when your body is under stress, like a jump or a sneeze or a cough, the tissue is very much at the mercy of gravity, and the stress p- or pressure that our tummy and intra-abdominal pressure has is way greater than what our poor little pelvic floor muscles can hold.

And what we need to also do is program ourselves to understand that the muscle can sometimes be very good at jumping up into position for continence, but very often the muscle is also guilty of just actually dropping down and pushing out a little bit of wee, you know, when we're not expecting it to do so.

And training that muscle to be consistent can be another part of our rehab that, um, that a good physio will be able to tell us to do.