Can endoscopy be used for diastasis recti repair?

A repair of the abdominal muscles (rectus diastasis) can be performed using endoscopic techniques with a small abdominal incision. This type of surgery is usually performed under general anesthesia and often costs around the same price as a full abdominoplasty. The recovery is also going to...

Most women with your situation could benefit from a tummy tuck at the same time as the diastasis and hernia repair.  There is a techniques developed hears ago where the entire procedure can be done laparoscopically, but this never caught on.  Hard to give you further input without...

It is true that an abdominoplasty will increase your intra-abdominal pressure.  Some consideration has to be given to the amount of visceral fat present.  The greater the degree of visceral fat the greater the rise in intra-abdominal pressure.  You should discuss your desire for...

Not only is it possible but in the right patient it can yield and excellent result. Then procedure is called endoscopic abdominoplasty and was invented By Dr. Marco Aurelio Farrea-Correa in 1990 in Brazil. I also developed a technique in this country in 1992 as we were unaware of Dr. Correa's...

If you carried high it is very common for the lower ribcage to flare after pregnancy. Ordinarily this will not interfere withthe diastasis repair, however we are careful to get fully up to the xyphoid (the notch in the middle) to avoid a bulge in the upper abdomen. The diastasis repair will hold...

Even 20 years ago with severe diastasis few if any patients could get covered. It is considered a normal result of childbirth just like droopy breasts. It is not a matter of "coding correctly", as some people will say or even the insurance company representative that wants to transfer blame to...