Diastasis recti is a common condition where the rectus abdominal muscles separate. It can occur at any age but is most common after childbirth, affecting around two-thirds of women postpartum. It occurs when the connective tissue that holds your abdominal muscles together becomes weakened or stretched over time, allowing them to separate. The primary cause […]
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These days, Diastasis recti, is a topic we see all over the place from different moms groups discussions, to advertisements targeting women for different programs that promise you the “one magical thing” that is going to get everything right for your abdomen. Diastasis recti is a fancy word describing a separation of your abdominal muscles.
Wow! We had an amazing response to our last blog post about rehabbing the mummy tummy. If you missed it, please check out our take on the importance of considering many factors when rehabilitating the postpartum core and/or diastasis recti, before reading on.Diastasis recti is a separation of the abdominal muscles that commonly happens with pregnancy. For some women
Yesterday my Facebook feed was inundated with multiple shares of this NPR article titled, “Flattening The ‘Mummy Tummy’ With 1 Exercise, 10 Minutes A Day.” After all, with a title like that who wouldn’t want to click on the article and and learn what seems to be such a simple fix for diastasis recti. The trouble is that the