Your abdominal muscles surround your trunk between the rib cage and pelvis and keep your abdominal organs safe. Your core abdominal muscles also support your trunk and allow movements while keeping ...

The rectus abdominis muscle is located in the front of the body, beginning at the pubic bone and ending at the sternum. It is located inside the abdominal region. The muscle is activated while doing ...

Background During antenatal period, many woman experience an increase of inter-rectus muscle distance (IRD) due to a weakening of the linea alba, considering a widening of >2 cm pathological.

Perhaps the most widely known and used core exercise, the ab crunch should be in every runners' strength training armoury. It works the rectus abdominis, the pairs of long, flat muscles at the front ...

Background Diastasis recti abdominis (DRA) has been defined as an impairment characterised by a midline separation of the 2 rectus abdominis (RA) muscles along the linea alba (LA) aponeurose. This ...

“Diastasis recti” means your belly sticks out because the space between your left and right belly muscles has widened. You might call it a “pooch.” It's very common among pregnant women. About ...

In the second of a five-part series, Dana Santas shows how building strength in the side abdominal muscles can improve stability in movement and reduce low back pain.

Diastasis width was not associated with an increase in intra-abdominal pressure when patients underwent rectus diastasis correction, according to recent study results. “The diastasis width does not ...