Is It Possible for Me to Feel my Intestine Through my Diastasis Recti?

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Robert Kearney, MD, FACS · Answer

It is certainly possible to feel your intestines through your diastasis. The tissue left between your muscles is quite thin. You must be thin.

David Shafer, MD, FACS · Answer

Yes, it is possible to palpate your intestines and other internal organs through your abdominal wall.  When you have a diastasis or separation of your rectus muscles, it makes the abdominal contents more prominent and also gives a roundness to your abdomen.  That is why diastasis repair is so effective at flattening your abdomen when done in conjunction with a full abdominoplasty.

	 

	Good Luck.

Tom J. Pousti, MD · Answer

Thank you for the question.

	It would have to be  relatively extreme case of diastasis recti for a person to be able to feel their gastrointestinal tract. The vast majority of patients with diastasis recti do not. On the other hand, patients with an abdominal wall hernia (true defect of the abdominal wall fascia) may be able to  feel intra-abdominal organs ( for example with straining coughing etc.).

Rondi Kathleen Walker, MD - Account Suspended · Answer

It is possible to feel your intestines through an extremely large and wide separation of your rectus muscle.  This large of a separation is not common, but can be seen for example after pregnancies with multiple births. A separation this wide is referred to as a ventral abdominal hernia and not diastasis recti.

	The hernia can be repaired as part of an abdominoplasty procedure.

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