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The Tummy Team Journey

Join Physical Therapist, Kelly Dean, in her quest to help you restore and rebuild your pelvic floor and core related challenges.

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Before You Buy That Kegel Exerciser

Before You Buy That Kegel Exerciser: What Your Pelvic Floor Really Needs to Heal If you’ve been scrolling through your...
April 11, 2026
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Welcome to Your Tummy Team Splint

We’re so glad you’re here. Abdominal rehab splinting can be an important component of functional core rehab. Regardless of the...
April 16, 2026
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Why Your Core Exercises Aren’t Working (And What Actually Does)

Sometimes the answer isn’t another exercise—it’s what you’re doing the other 23 hours of the day. 🎯 Physical Therapist Kelly...
April 16, 2026
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From Disconnected to Empowered: My Diastasis Recti Journey

So I was just working on a project, and in this project I was going back to the origin story...
April 16, 2026
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Healing From Birth Trauma w/ Kelly Dean

All right, so I just finished an incredible session with a client, and unfortunately, this client had a very traumatic...
April 16, 2026
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Learn How to Improve Optimal Fetal Alignment

The Tummy Team specializes in functional core strength – training your internal corset muscle (the transverse abdominis) to be able...
October 29, 2024
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10 Body Fails Connected to the Core

Are You Tired of Your Body Letting You Down? Take Back Control with The Tummy Team If you’re struggling with...
March 19, 2025
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Diastasis Recti & Pregnancy – What You Need to Know

The Tummy Team works with prenatal and postpartum women to prepare the core and pelvic floor for a strong pregnancy...
March 19, 2025
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What Men Need to Know about Diastasis Recti

The Tummy Team is a group of physical therapists who specialize in Functional Core Rehabilitation and specifically the treatment of...
September 11, 2025
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3 Easy Ways to Improve Diastasis Recti While You Are Pregnant

Diastasis recti – a separation of the abdominal wall at the linea alba – is very common during pregnancy for...
March 28, 2025
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The Tummy Team’s Guide to Checking for Diastasis

Diastasis Recti is a midline separation of the right and left sides of the abdominal wall. It can happen to...
March 28, 2025
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How to Have a Strong Birth When You Are on Bed Rest

The Tummy Team has the opportunity to work with pregnant women around the world with our online Prenatal Core Training...
February 5, 2026
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Prepare Your Body to be Stronger For Birth

If labor and delivery is the most challenging physical event most women will ever do…why do we not train our...
August 2, 2023
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8 Steps to Meeting Your Goals

The Tummy Team is passionate about helping you live the life you LOVE! That often starts with core rehab but...
November 22, 2024
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6 Questions on Diastasis Recti and Fitness

You just found out you have a diastasis. Now you want to know:  When we feel weak and disconnected from...
February 11, 2025
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Swimming and Diastasis Recti

As a physical therapist that specializes in core rehabilitation, I get a lot of questions about swimming and diastasis recti....
August 27, 2026
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Top 10 Reasons to do Online Physical Therapy for Core Rehab

The Tummy Team is a physical therapy clinic in Camas Wa that specializes in Functional Core and Functional Pelvic Floor...
August 2, 2023
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6 Steps to Understand and Address Grief and Trauma in your Core

The most common contributing factor with all of our functional core and pelvic floor weakness clients is disconnect.  Emotional and...
November 11, 2024