Ironically more difficult was learning and remembering what not to do as well as how to go about daily activities. I’d been through the gamut of exercise options Tupler was a breeze compared to all that. This prevents the weakened connective tissue from becoming overtaxed and allows it to regain its strength to bring the muscles back together and close the gap. The splint is meant to hold the muscles in proper position while the exercises ensure that the transverse (innermost) muscles are used for everyday activities. Since it involved an outlay of only $150 for their stomach splint and exercise DVD I felt comfortable giving it a try. I even learned that coaches who walked people through the tummy-tuck procedure recommended the Tupler Technique first Tupler was everywhere.
I read scores of reviews from experts unaffiliated with the Tupler Technique and a slew of testimonials. And hit the jackpot with my discovery of the Tupler Technique - an exercise program created to close a diastasis. Additionally I couldn’t imagine the difficult prolonged recovery. In addition to the hefty price tag (upward of $10 000 and since it’s viewed as cosmetic surgery and performed by a plastic surgeon insurance companies may not cover the cost) pregnancies are discouraged after tummy tucks and I was hoping my family would still grow.
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The solution Google sent my way? Get an abdominoplasty (commonly known as a tummy tuck) a procedure involving removing excess skin and fat plus sewing together the recti muscle (sometimes two separate procedures). Now that I knew what I was looking for I could finally do a targeted search. “But you can’t do anything about it anyway ” she said. She did - and then admitted that I did have the condition.
“I think I have diastasis recti ” I told my OB at the postpartum visit. I did a quick self-check and found that I could fit my entire fist in the gap between the rectus abdominis muscles! Furthermore the exercises everyone told me to do were the very exercises to be avoided! As the organs push out the connective tissue the stomach appears larger. The larger the gap between the muscles the less power the connective tissue has to hold the organs in their proper places. This condition isn’t just extra pounds put on during pregnancy it occurs when organs bulge onto the connective tissue between two stomach muscles known as rectus abdominis. Refusing to give up the search I finally stumbled upon my eureka diagnosis: diastasis recti. The difference was that I wasn’t carrying anything besides a bloated stomach. As I’d enter my ninth month I’d daven to Hashem that I should give birth today I felt as if I couldn’t hold the load any longer.īy the time I had four children I looked more pregnant months after birth than my neighbor did immediately before she had her twins. I took to wearing a thick supportive belt beneath my clothing - a support most other women have naturally. It wasn’t just an issue of not looking fit I felt as if I couldn’t physically support my pregnancy. With each subsequent pregnancy the situation exacerbated. I didn’t bring it up with my primary care physician but I did go through several OBs and they were all dismissive. I wasn’t just searching for a thin waistline. I had a feeling many women in her practice express the same sentiment - but I really had a problem. “Why isn’t my abdomen going back into place?” I Googled every variation of the question I could think of but nothing solid turned up so I turned to my OB. “I think you should get it checked out ” a friend said.
“B’shaah tovah!” strangers “congratulated” me on the “impending birth” during those weeks and months postpartum. I tried every ab exercise that exists dieted like crazy biked and walked but with zero success.Īfter my third child was born things escalated. As befits a fitness buff my abdominal muscles were as tough as a brick wall.Īfter my first child was born the brick wall was gone. B y the time I was 15 years old doing 300 sit-ups a day was just one part of my exercise regimen.
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