I realized that I have not given updates on the latest results I am seeing, so I am posting those now. I have gotten several emails about these, especially from women who have been told by docs and practitioners that
1) They need to wait to do ANYTHING about their diastasis recti until they are done having kids
2) There is nothing that can be done for the diastasis recti, apart from surgery
3) A tummy tuck (with the optional stitching the muscles together) is the surgery needed to fix this
Well, I can’t say enough how ill-informed this is. I have had a COUPLE of you email me that you sought 2nd opinions and were told about exercises they could do – which is the Tupler Technique (Uh…yeah!!) So for those that were given the brush off about surgery, GET a 2nd opinion, or just realize that maybe doctors in your area have not been informed. I see people bring their diastasis together all the time, so it just seems silly to me that people would say you have to get surgery. I had one girl in a class of mine whose separation was just 1 fingerwidth and she was told she needed surgery for it from her doctor. Preposterous! She closed it in 2 weeks.
ANYWAY – after my little rant (; Here are the latest results:
1) I had a plus size girl (43 inch waist) in one of my classes who had a D.R. of
3 (fingerwidths )on the top
6 in the middle
3 on the bottom
In 7 weeks she was:
closed on top
1 in the midle
closed on the bottom
Waist down 1 inch!
2) I had girl who had TWINS and was a small petite girl (who ROCKED the technique). She was:
3 on top
5 in the middle
3 on the bottom
In SIX weeks she was
closed on top
closed in middle
closed on bottom
DONE! WAIST down 2 inches!
3) I had a girl who has 3 kids and had rocky technique for weeks before her transverse was strong enough for consistency. She was
3 on top
3 in middle
closed on the bottom
6 week later
closed on top
1 in middle
closed on bottom
Waist down by 1 1/4 inches!
4) This next girl isn’t the BEST example, but I thought it interesting. She was only present half the time, due to a crises in her family. Due to the same crises, she didn’t do almost any sets the last 3 weeks on her own. She STILL managed to get decent result – not awesome – but considered she didn’t do much the last 3 of 7 weeks, pretty good. She was:
1 on top
5 in middle
4 1/2 on bottom
7 SORT OF weeks later
closed on top
3 in middle
3 on bottom
Down FOUR inches in WAIST!
All the ladies in my examples wore splints consistently, except the last girl. Had the last girl worn her splint consistently AND done her daily sets of seated tuplers, I am sure she would have closed her DR and come in at least another inch on her waist.
