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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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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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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
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Your Core, Your Pelvic Floor and Your Mental Health

After over a decade of working in Functional Core Rehabilitation, it is impossible to not see the connection between the...
August 2, 2023
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The Unexpected Truth about Diastasis Recti

Diastasis Recti is a medical condition where the abdominal wall separates due to stretching of the connective tissue of the...
November 22, 2024
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5 Signs Your Body Might Be Falling Apart

Have you ever felt like all of a sudden your body is falling apart? Simple things you were capable of...
March 31, 2026
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How to Train for the Pushing Phase of Labor

The Tummy Team works closely with pregnant women to help physically and emotionally prepare the body for labor, delivery and...
September 4, 2023
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5 Things Your Doctor May Not Know About Diastasis Recti

Diastasis recti is a common, yet rarely diagnosed, condition that can contribute to multiple medical conditions. In short, diastasis recti...
August 2, 2023
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Is Surgery Really the Answer for Your Hernia?

Hernia or Diastasis Recti? Could it be a misdiagnosis? There is a lot of confusing and contradictory information out there....
August 2, 2023
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Here’s What You Need to Know About Hormones and Diastasis

Diastasis recti is the separation of the abdominal wall due to overstretching and damage to the connective tissue that runs...
August 2, 2023
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2023 New Motivation (& Strategies to Create the Discipline to Meet Your Goals)

What’s YOUR motivation?  Have you forgotten what really matters? Life feels like a heavy grind right now in so many...
August 2, 2023
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Welcome to Advent (The Tummy Team Style!)

Welcome to Advent (The Tummy Team Style!) What is Advent? Well, essentially it is a season observed in most Christian...
August 2, 2023