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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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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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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
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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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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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4 Helpful Answers To Validate Your Pelvic Floor Symptoms

Pelvic floor symptoms historically are neglected by the medical community. Dismissing valid symptoms and offering ridiculous remedies cause women to...
August 2, 2023
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3 Guidelines for Splinting with Prolapse

Pelvic organ prolapse is when one of your pelvic organs drops and pushes against the walls of your vagina. If...
August 2, 2023
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6 Ways to Achieve Tummy Safe Fitness

At The Tummy Team, we strive to help educate and motivate people to be strong for life. We are functional...
December 30, 2024
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4 Body Aches that are Signs of Core Weakness

There are a lot of movements we do every day around the house that can put us in compromising postures...
August 2, 2023