Physiotherapist for abdominal seperation

[~ Mylitta ~]

My abdominal muscles severely separated from rib cage to navel during my son's pregnancy and you could fit your entire hand in the gap. It was still just as long when I fell pregnant with my daughter and during that pregnancy the length increased and inch or two below my navel as well. It's still the same and I'm pregnant again so I don't expect it to get better any time soon, lol.

I got the tubey thing in hospital after my daughter and I LOVE it. It was the best thing after giving birth. I hate that feeling you get in your abdomen after birth where it feels like all your organs are just falling down again (which they probably are, lol), and found that the tubey thing was great to help with that feeling.

I saw a physio once or twice during my pregnancies, but the trouble I had with the exercises was that many of them I couldn't do because I also had nasty pelvic instability and the exercises were bad for that. Then all the exercises to help with the pelvic instability were bad for the tummy muscle separation *groan*.

During the later stages of pregnancy the separation causes me quite a bit of pain (like a tearing sensation) where the muscles meet under my ribs, and sometimes I get that pain even after the pregnancy. I've sometimes wondered if I could convince a doctor that the pain was bad enough that he'd refer me to a surgeon for the corrective surgery (so that it would be non-elective and covered with private health insurance), but I very much doubt it. The corrective surgery is basically like a tummy-tuck so I doubt private health insurance likes to cover it, LOL!

[~me~]

I've sometimes wondered if I could convince a doctor that the pain was bad enough that he'd refer me to a surgeon for the corrective surgery (so that it would be non-elective and covered with private health insurance), but I very much doubt it. The corrective surgery is basically like a tummy-tuck so I doubt private health insurance likes to cover it, LOL!

A GF of mine had tummy muscle separation as well. She did get a doctor to refer her to a surgeon and they fixed the separation, she also had a tummy tuck as well while she was under as and added bonus (may have been a bit of liposuction as well)...all under her PHI. It was covered under PHI as it was deemed medically necessary and not cosmetic

She was in the worst pain after the surgery, it took her a good 6mths to recover fully, she doesn't regret it all!