The Journey to Effective Online Core Rehab Kelly Dean, MPT and Founder of The Tummy Team, shares how online functional core rehab is effective.  Not all physical therapy works well remotely, but The Tummy Team approach uses education and functional integration strategies to help each client become their own best therapist. The core is all about how…
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A Journey to a Redeeming Birth after a Traumatic Experience Kelly Dean, MPT and Founder of The Tummy Team, interviews Elif, Tummy Team client, who shares about her traumatic first birth experience and how The Tummy Team helped her redeem the birth of her second baby.  After experiencing brokenness and hopelessness, prenatal core training helped Elif…
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A Journey to Understand Diastasis Recti & Functional Core Weakness In this episode, Kelly Dean, MPT and Founder of The Tummy Team, shares the big picture about Diastasis Recti.  Yes, this is a separation of the abdominal wall, but it is much more than just a gap in your belly. All the confusion is cleared up…
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A Journey to Healing an 8-Finger Wide Diastasis without Surgery Kelly Dean, MPT and Founder of The Tummy Team, interviews Core Foundations client, Noa, a mom of three. She was diagnosed with an 8-finger wide diastasis and was told that surgery was her only option.  Noa shares how she refused to settle for that answer,…
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A Journey of Hope for Diastasis During Pregnancy with Prenatal Core Training Kelly Dean, MPT and founder of The Tummy Team, interviews Jessica, Tummy Team client, as she shares about feeling scared and overwhelmed after learning about her diastasis with her first pregnancy and how prenatal core training changed everything.  She reports feeling stronger at…
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A Journey of Recovering from the Empty Feeling of a 10-Finger Diastasis Kelly Dean, MPT and founder of The Tummy Team, interviews Monet Noriega, Tummy Team client, who is also now an Endorsed Tummy Team Trained Practitioner.  Monet shares how emptiness and disconnect led her to seeking help for the weakness she felt in her…
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A Journey to Honest Self Assessment In this episode, Kelly Dean, MPT and Founder of The Tummy Team, describes in detail the importance of client self assessment to fully understand your starting point in the functional core rehab process. We often ignore or minimize symptoms that give us valuable information about what our body needs…
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A Man’s Journey to Healing His Diastasis & More Kelly Dean, MPT  and founder of The Tummy Team, interviews online Tummy Team client, Jim, as he shares about how he first learned about diastasis recti in men and how The Tummy Team helped him realize that the separation of his abdominals was just one thing holding him back…
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A Journey of Regaining Strength at 60 Kelly Dean, MPT and founder of The Tummy Team, interviews 61-year-old Tummy Team client, Beth Forsberg, who shares her story of feeling strong and connected, and relieving her back pain so she can continue to do what she loves as she moves into the next season of her life. Beth…
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