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Effect of Kinesio Taping on Diastasis Recti and Body Image Concerns among Postpartum Women

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Last updated: 24 Dec 2024

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Background: Diastasis of the rectus abdominis (DRA) has many long-term consequences for
women's health. It is described as a large gap between the rectus abdominis muscles which usually
appears early in the last trimester of pregnancy. Kinesio taping is a well-known nonpharmacological technique that is increasingly utilized successfully in sports, neuromuscular
rehabilitation, and the management of musculoskeletal problems. Aim: determine the effect of
Kinesio taping on diastasis recti and body image concerns among postpartum women. Design: a
quasi-experimental research design was followed in this study. Setting: The study was conducted at
the obstetric and gynecologic outpatient clinic at Damanhour National Medical Institute. Subjects:
A purposive sample of 80 postpartum women was selected. Tools: Two tools were used for data
collection. The first tool Socio-demographic structured interview schedule. The second tool is the
body image concerns inventory scale. It was originally developed by Littleton et al. (2005) for
measuring body dysmorphic appearance concerns among postpartum women. Results: According to
the current study's findings, there was a highly statistically significant decrease in the inter-rectus
distance after the intervention at the three levels of inter–rectus separation (p<0.001). Regarding the
effect of KT on body image concerns, the study findings revealed that 45% and 37.5% of the study
group had either moderate or high dysmorphic concern regarding body image respectively, before
the intervention. This percentage decreased to only 27.5% & 7.5% among the study group
respectively after the application of KT with highly statistically significant improvement in body
image. Conclusion: the study concluded that postpartum women for whom Kinesio taping was
applied had less degree of diastasis recti and lowered body image concerns than those who did not.
Recommendations: the study recommended Kinesio taping as a safe, available, painless, costeffective, easy-to-use, and effective, non-pharmacological method for managing diastasis recti

DOI

10.21608/ejhc.2023.375938

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Kinesio taping, Diastasis recti, Body image concerns, Postpartum Women

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Nadia

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Mahmoud Mohamed Mahmoud

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Obstetric and Gynecologic Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Alexandria University

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Emile Gohar

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Obstetric and Gynecologic Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Alexandria University

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Hanan

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Moustafa Ashour Elkhatib

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Obstetric& Gynecologic Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Damanhour University

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14

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3

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42812

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2023-09-01

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2024-08-25

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2023-09-01

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1,253

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1687-9546

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3009-6766

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Egyptian Journal of Health Care

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Effect of Kinesio Taping on Diastasis Recti and Body Image Concerns among Postpartum Women

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24 Dec 2024