Finally, far from focusing on a flat stomach, your deep core muscles work your pelvic floor and diaphragm. Your pelvic floor muscles are a group of muscles at the base of your pelvis, and ...

Learning proper core engagement can help, but if the brunt of repeated lumbar spinal flexion takes its toll, you can happily scrap sit-ups and try many other abs exercises instead, including landmine ...

Our abdominal muscles are made up of four muscle groups: the rectus abdominis (also referred to as the ‘six-pack’ muscles), our internal and external obliques, and transverse abdominis (the deepest of ...

We recently developed a novel active implant for the treatment of severe stress urinary incontinence. This innovative medical device has been developed with the main purpose of reducing the mean ...

Ever hear a teacher say some yoga cues in class and ask yourself, what does that even mean? Here's how to translate them.

At 0.5cm medial to the semilunar line, we made an incision in the rectus posterior sheath to expose the transversus abdominis muscle. We opened the posterior lamina of the rectus sheath, identifying ...

The defect of the abdominal wall that remains after closure of the bladder is triangular, and is limited laterally by the rectus abdominis muscle and inferiorly by the inter-symphyseal band, where the ...

Rectus abdominis The rectus abdominis is the long, flat muscle on the front of your abdomen. It’s separated by lines of ligamentous tissue, which gives it a washboard appearance. However, it’s ...

While the movers include your rectus abdominis (six-pack muscles), obliques, and hip muscles, the deep core refers to the stabilizers that keep everything strong and steady.

DON’T: Just Do Lots of Direct Ab Work When you’ve lost enough fat to reveal your abs, you still need muscle to show. So building the rectus abdominis —the “six-pack muscle”—is important.

Background/aims: Surgical correction of ocular alignment in patients with third cranial nerve paralysis is challenging, as the unopposed lateral rectus muscle often pulls the eye back to exotropia ...