The reverse crunch is a simple core exercise that targets those hard-to-hit lower abs — without straining your neck and back.

The secret to training your abs is out – and it entails more than sit-ups and planks, more than just targeting your rectus abdominis, the ballyhooed band of muscle between your chest and your hips.

The pelvic floor and abdominal musculature undergo a period of prolonged stress during pregnancy that may lead to pelvic floor disorders and diastasis rectus abdominis following childbirth. Pelvic ...

Background/aim Diastasis recti abdominis (DRA) is defined as a separation of the 2 muscle bellies of rectus abdominis. To date there is scant knowledge on prevalence, risk factors, and consequences of ...

[28] In this approach, free flaps are used that comprise skin and fat alone, without the rectus abdominis. Avoidance of muscle sacrifice in the abdomen ultimately translates into greater patient ...