You may not have heard of it if you don’t have children. But if you do, chances are you will have heard a lot about ‘‘the gap’’ or ‘‘diastasis recti’’, which the majority of women experience after delivering a child.
Diastasis recti is the clinical term for ‘‘separation of abdominals’’. In this condition, the two sides of the rectus abdominis (your 6-pack muscle) stretch out and away from one another, pulling on the connective tissue that delineates them. This connective tissue acts very much like a tendon and is called the linea alba. …