Yes, I am about to turn 50! I honestly thought I would be dreading this transition, but I am actually feeling pretty great about it. I think that growing older can be synonymous with loss and grief and negative changes. We can focus on what we can no longer do or how we no longer…
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Don’t let the busyness of the holiday season keep you from taking care of your body. The Tummy Team specializes in making everyday activities meaningful and giving you tools and strategies to bring your functional core strength into everything you do. Use this fun resource as daily reminder of how to be intentional and promote…
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Join us this November for our 21 Day Meaningful Movement Challenge! The Tummy Team is passionate about functional core strength. Essentially we want you to be strong, stable and pain free from your core to be able to live the life you love. We specialize in functional core rehab and helping clients worldwide effectively rehabilitate…
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Your Core, Your Pelvic Floor and Your Mental Health After over a decade of working in Functional Core Rehabilitation, it is impossible to not see the connection between the core, the pelvic floor and mental health. Understanding exactly what that connection is has been a more challenging journey. Mental health has become a more openly…
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Diastasis Recti Awareness During the month of July, we hope to educate and empower professionals with knowledge and resources about Diastasis Recti so they can feel confident in supporting their unique communities. What do we (and our clients) wish professionals knew about Diastasis Recti? The Tummy Team acknowledges there is a gap in the knowledge…
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Diastasis Recti is a midline separation of the right and left sides of the abdominal wall. It can happen to men and women, regardless of age, weight or fitness level. It is caused by the most common compensation pattern for Functional Core Weakness: consistent forward and forceful pressure against the abdominal wall. This pressure can…
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Our body is a “use it or lose it” system. The more consistently we use muscles, the stronger they are. The more we neglect muscles, the weaker they become. We refer to this type of weakness as disuse atrophy. In addition, our body is like a machine in that it has an ideal alignment where…
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Are you tired of simply trying to survive 2020? Many of us are struggling. It is hard to be motivated and harder to stay motivated. We are tired and discouraged and most cannot exercise and move the way we are used to. What if we could give you a new way? What if we could…
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The Tummy Team is a group of physical therapists who specialize in Functional Core Rehabilitation and specifically the treatment of diastasis recti. We have been helping clients heal abdominal wall damage and restore their core for over a decade and have designed several online rehab programs to help clients around the world. After years of…
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Diastasis Recti is a medical condition where the abdominal wall separates due to stretching of the connective tissue of the linea alba. This is an incredibly common (but not normal) condition that is a symptom of a much bigger issue, functional core weakness. Unfortunately, there is a lot of misinformation about diastasis, the cause, the…
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