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Have you ever been praised for your flexibility? Maybe you’ve been told you’re double-jointed? But… your muscles still feel tight and sometimes painful, you sprain your ankles all the time, and there's a joint that feels like you “just need to crack it” about 100 times a day and the relief only lasts a couple minutes… You might be hypermobile! The term “hypermobility” refers to more movement in a joint than the normal range. Hypermobility is a spectrum, and some people that

Most women have trouble measuring a diastasis recti on themselves. The reason can be that the measurement itself is confusing or that they are uncomfortable with feeling this disorder on themselves. The picture above demonstrates a 3 finger diastasis recti, or separation of the abdominal wall. The measurement simply evaluates how many fingers you can fit width-wise at your abdomen in 3 places. 1.) Lay on your back with your knees bent up. Place your hand over your navel. 2.)

I have been receiving a lot of questions about my previous blog called “Separation Anxiety.” I want to take a minute to elaborate on some of the questions that I have been receiving. One new interesting fact that recent evidence has revealed is that sixty-six percent of women have DRA in the third trimester of pregnancy. Q: “Does the length of time after pregnancy matter? Can it still be fixed?” A: The answer to this question is always YES. There is not an amount of time that

Are you a victim of the “Mummy Tummy” or chronic low back pain post-pregancy? As a Physical Therapist, I have come across many postpartum women who have a diastasis recti, or separation of their abdomen. After pregnancy, most women are not even aware that they had this deficit. Symptoms associated with DRA can include; low back pain, weak core, doming of the abdomen, and issues with digestion. Diastasis recti is a separation of the right and left side of the rectus abdominis