• Health How to remove abdominal diastasis

His

#retodiastasis9weeks

has become a true phenomenon on Instagram.

Every day, Gabriela Grande, a personal trainer, receives messages from women all over the world who, like her, suffer from a pathology that, unfortunately, has not been given the importance it deserves

until very recently

.

"

80% of women who have been mothers suffer from abdominal diastasis

. A very large percentage do not even know they have it and, even worse, carry out physical activities that tend to worsen their condition. For this reason, it is so important to give visibility to this issue," Grande asserts.

What is abdominal diastasis?

"It is the

separation of the rectus abdominis

(the muscle of the 'squares'), due to a distension or tear of the connective tissue (linea alba), which joins one rectum to the other", he affirms.

This trainer explains how, "in the

third trimester of pregnancy

, the rectus abdominis 'separates' to make room for the baby and the uterus. After delivery,

those muscles should come back together.

However, diastasis abdominis occurs when They can't do it."

Her method to promote this improvement in a pathology, which causes so many headaches for women and which

always requires a

personalized diagnosis and treatment

, arose from her own experience after becoming a mother.

"The Diastasis Challenge was born out of my own need and to

prevent other women from going through the same thing that I had to go through

."

Her story begins like this: "Six months had already passed since my cesarean section, but I still felt the separation of my abdominals perfectly. Despite the fact that it was enormous,

between one rectus abdominis and the other there was 5 cm

, I was completely convinced that my body "Little by little, it would recover its normal form. How wrong I was! But if, today, everything related to diastasis is an enigma, imagine 15 years ago!", he recalls.

Until one day

it collapsed

.

"My sister-in-law gave birth to my niece a month before me. So we both had a lot in common, except for one:

her abdomen was completely closed and I didn't.

I knew something was wrong. How was it possible? that she, who didn't exercise and sat down all day, would have recovered before me? At that moment, all my alarms went off."

Grande remembers the day she consulted her gynecologist as if it were yesterday.

"He explored my abdomen and his eyes widened:

'You have a huge diastasis!'

"He told me. I didn't answer anything. My abdomen, strong and flat, which had always been a source of pride for me, was swollen like a balloon and weakened.

I cried a lot.

But it was clear to me that I was not going to sit idly by."

From there,

he changed his way of training

completely.

"Nobody ever told me that traditional sit-ups are contraindicated for diastasis. But it wasn't necessary either. When I tried to do them, I noticed that my stomach was deformed and I didn't have a good feeling. So I stopped doing them.

Posture, breathing and muscle activation deep abdomen became my pillars.

And the changes were not long in coming. My abdomen, although it still has a 5 cm separation, is much stronger and more functional than before. I am proud that I did not give up and, above all, to be able to help other women," she concludes.


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