Physiotherapy is known to improve posture, strength, and body image in postpartum women, while physical agents may support tissue remodeling, blood flow, collagen synthesis, angiogenesis, and fibroblast proliferation. Building on this, a study evaluated the effects of kinesiotherapy, physical agents—including electromagnetic shock waves, transfer of energy capacitive and resistive (TECAR) therapy, and neuromuscular electrical stimulation—and a combination of both on inter-rectus distance (IRD) in 60 women with diastasis recti abdominis six months after childbirth. Compared with physical agents alone, combination therapy reduced supraumbilical IRD by 0.80 cm.
In the infraumbilical region, combination therapy achieved greater IRD reduction than both kinesiotherapy alone and physical agents alone, with mean differences of 0.74 cm and 0.85 cm, respectively. Both physical agents alone and…
