A popped belly button and stretch marks aren’t the only changes your midsection goes through with a growing bump. After giving birth, you might have noticed that there’s a gap between the left and ...

New research and clinical practice highlight that targeted pelvic floor and deep core exercises can significantly improve postpartum conditions like diastasis recti and pelvic floor disorders.

The Tupler Technique is an 18-week program designed to reduce diastasis recti, a common separation of abdominal muscles, through a four-step process. The program emphasizes specific exercises, ...

Exercise is recommended as the first-line intervention for the treatment of pelvic floor disorders, 13 14 sexual dysfunction 15 and diastasis recti abdominis. 16–18 However, the efficacy of exercise ...

I suspected I had diastasis recti and wondered if there was anything I could still do about it.

A viewer asked Dr. Lacy Anderson about treatment options for diastasis recti. Diastasis recti is a condition where the fascia, or connective tissue holding the abdominal muscles together, becomes torn ...

Chances are, if you're not pregnant or haven't been pregnant before, 'diastasis recti' will mean very little to you. A term to describe the separation of the abdominal muscles during pregnancy, it's ...

After Riina Laaksonen welcomed her second child, her GP (wrongly) told her to return to her pre-pregnancy exercise routine - and she ended up injuring herself. Riina was unaware that she was suffering ...