The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
So they are typically prescribed for urinary incontinence, specifically stress urinary incontinence. So leakage that occurs when you have an increase in your intra-abdominal pressure, like a Valsalva, or coughing, sneezing, lifting heavy things, jumping on a trampoline. So for those purposes, we use Kegels to strengthen the pelvic floor, and also in women, pelvic organ prolapse.
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For men, we often prescribe them for people who have had a prostatectomy, who then subsequently develop leakage after the prostatectomy, that is, again, stress urinary incontinence.