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Re: Gen: Diastasis Rectii From: R. Daniel Braun (rd.braun@gmail.com) Thu Jan 24 18:27:13 2008 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: GIN11153@aol.com: "Baby in critical condition after fire in oxygen hood at hospital" Previous message: viv souter: "Re: Oral Exam Courses" In reply to: Garry E. Siegel, M.D.: "Re: Gen: Diastasis Rectii" If she tightens her recti muscles and you can place your fist between them. she has a diastasis. Dan On Jan 24, 2008 11:57 AM, Garry E. Siegel, M.D. <garrys@mindspring.com> wrote: > Thanks for your wisdom, all of which confirms my instinct that she is > looking too hard for a problem that is minor and, more importantly, > needs no correction, as the cure may well be worse than the problem. > > Garry > > At Thu, 24 Jan 2008, art fougner, md wrote: > > > >And then ... after another pregnancy, they're back to square one. > > > >Art > > > >At Thu, 24 Jan 2008, Dr. John Provatopoulos B.Sc. M.D.C.M. F.R.S.C. > >wrote: > >> > >>At Wed, 23 Jan 2008, Garry E. Siegel, M.D. wrote: > >>> > >>>Nothing glaringly obvious; perhaps a bit. > >>> > >>>Other than looking, I don't know how to assess the severity of it, or > if > >>>that is even done. > >>> > >>>My advice to her, perhaps ignorant advice, is to do nothing special and > >>>go about her business normally. > >>> > >>>Garry > >>> > >>Garry she will only be happy when she has her washboard abs back. On a > >>similar note I often see post partum patients who have lost considerable > >>weight and have some moderate but in my opinion acceptable lax subQ > >>tissue. They insist they need an abdominoplasty; I tell them they will > >>end up with a taunt abdomen and a big ugly scar and that they will have > >>a 30% chance of developing stress urinary incontinence because what you > >>tighten above will hasten something falling below. Sure enough 20% show > >>up a year later with a taunt abdomen, a big ugly scar and urinary stress > >>incontinence, I promptly refer to an urologist. > >> > >>-- > >> Take care, John > >> > >-- > >art fougner, md > >"May The Wings of Liberty Never Lose a Feather." - Jack Burton > > > > -- > Garry E. Siegel, M.D. > Private Practice > Roswell, GA > -- R. Daniel Braun, MD FACOG(L) CMT Professor Emeritus Dept. of Obstetrics and Gynecology Indiana U. School of Medicine R. Daniel Braun "Science without Religion is LAME; Religion without Science is BLIND" Einstein 1941 Next message: GIN11153@aol.com: "Baby in critical condition after fire in oxygen hood at hospital" Previous message: viv souter: "Re: Oral Exam Courses" In reply to: Garry E. Siegel, M.D.: "Re: Gen: Diastasis Rectii"

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