Have a personal or library account? Click to login
Physiotherapy in women with diastasis of the rectus abdominis muscles Cover

Physiotherapy in women with diastasis of the rectus abdominis muscles

Open Access
|Dec 2018

Figures & Tables

Reduction of the diastasis rectus abdominis in the research and control groups

The size of the DRAM before and after therapy

DRA sizeBefore therapyAfter therapy
Control group3,28± 0,390,404± 0,230
Research group3,54± 0,331,675± 0,701

The results of difference in statistical significance of features before and after treatment in both groups

Cechyp
Difference in BMI (1- 6 week)0,001287**
Difference in WHR (1- 6 week)0,000013**
Difference in waist circumference (1- 6 week)0,000088**
Difference in hip circumference (1- 6 week)0,440

The size of the DRAM in both groups after tests

Relationship between predisposing factors and DRAM

Featuresp
Weight gain in pregnancy [kg]0,371*
BMI in 1 week after delivery0,313*
Number of deliveries0,319*
Physical activity before pregnancy [pkt]-0,48*
Physical activity during pregnancy [pkt]-0,44*
Mother’s age0,090
Body weight of the child [g]0,194

Characteristic of the participants divided into research and control groups

GroupAge [years]Body mass [kg]Body high [cm]BMI*WHR**Width of DRAM [cm]
Research28,90± 6,9369,28± 11,30166,5± 6,8724,94± 3,600,953± 0,0333,28± 0,39
Control34,75± 5,9573,37± 9,45167,25± 5,9926,183± 2,710,972± 0,0383,54± 0,33
Language: English
Page range: 11 - 17
Published on: Dec 31, 2018
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

© 2018 Patrycja Żaneta Bobowik, Aneta Dąbek, published by University of Physical Education in Warsaw
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License.