Will Emsculpt help these areas or make the abdomen look bigger since your abs are being worked? Is surgery inevitable? (Photos)

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I am 5'3 about 129 lbs. Lost 50lbs of baby weight. I've been able to close my diastasis from a 4 to a 1-2cm, when flexed. My biggest bulge is above the naval and at the naval when at rest. I don't have that much loose skin. I weight lift regularly. I've been cleared of any hernias, the general surgeon just diagnosed diastasis with weak mid line at the naval and above.

Giancarlo Zuliani, MD · Answer

You are definitely a candidate for EMSCULPT!  EMSCULPT will not only help improve overall core strength but will improve your diastasis recti as well.  You can expect to see more definition predominantly in the upper abdominal region.  Good luck!

Danielle Shanley, MD · Answer

Absolutely! Emsculpt would be a perfect treatment for you seeing that you are so fit. Emsculpt treatments will help reduce the fat that is just above the muscle (which is the hardest fat people fined to get ride of) and tone up the abdomen muscles. These treatments are going to give you an over all smaller  and tighter look. These contractions are 80 to 90%, so you will see muscle toning in as little as 2 week and fat loss in about six weeks. Good luck!

Roberta Huang, MD · Answer

Hello and thank you for your question. Congratulations on losing the baby weight. Emsculpt should help flatten your abs further by giving your rectus muscles a degree of workout that you simply cannot acheive through regular exercise. For you, I would placing a single paddle centered around your umbilicus. Emsculpt can also further help to reduce your diastasis up to about 19%.

Jamé Heskett, MD · Answer

Hi CCK, 
First of all, you look great! I have delivered hundreds of babies, and had 3 myself, so I know the challenge of the PP baby belly! I had a terrible diastasis with my 2nd....Thank goodness the 3rd was good to me. 
Anyway, Emsculpt works great on diastasis. I will say, I would want to evaluate you in person to see where that little bulge is coming from. Often when we work out heavily with a diastasis we use our bigger abdominal muscles and they can cause what I call a "bicep belly" which is a convex shape to the belly like flexing your bicep on your arm. This is because the larger muscles retain their connection to the nerves where the little ones don't. These muscles keep getting bigger and the smaller muscles keep getting weaker......belly pouches out. Emsculpt contracts all of your muscles and reawakens the smaller weaker ones, creating better balance and the belly starts to suck in. If this is the case with you, which I suspect it is, Emsculpt should solve this problem. You will need to do some specific isometric exercises when you are not doing the emsculpt to keep them stimulated until they are really working well again. I would definitely go slow on the emsculpt in your first session and work up to full strength if indicated. 
I hope this helps!
Good luck, 
Dr. Jamé

Peter J. Jenkin, MD, FAAD · Answer

I think you would be a perfect candidate for EmSculpt.  You should not only expect to see a decrease in abdominal fat but more tone and better definition of your abdominals.  All of my patients can definitely feel the increased core strength.  Though not indicated for this, a significant improvement in diastasis can also be seen.  Best.

Mats Hagstrom, MD (license on probation) · Answer

This technology strengthens muscles the same way exercise does. It does nothing more. It’s like doing an enormous number of sit ups in a short amount of time. It does not change fat distribution in anyway. I’m not quite sure if your reference to Your abdomen looking bigger is from muscle hypertrophy But I would not think that’s the case. If anything strengthening your core muscles will be able to allow you to hold a tight abdomen against a diastases with less effort.The only true treatment for Diastases is a full abdominal plasty with muscle tightening.Exercise helps significantly and weight loss helps by decreasing intra-abdominal fat which causes the diastases to be much more pronounced.Best, Mats Hagstrom MD

Daniel J. Leeman, MD - Account Suspended · Answer

You would be a great candidate for Emsculpt! I cannot see this treatment making the abdomen look bigger, if anything it will get smaller because of the fat burning aspect of the treatment. You should get a great result!
Cheers!
Dr. Leeman

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