Are you wondering if you can wear the diastasis rehab splint or do the Tupler Technique program during your pregnancy?
I'm Julie Tupler creator of the Tupler Technique
And I have worked with pregnant moms for over 20 years and yes the program was created
For pregnant women to prepare them for the marathon of labor and by the way
This is a fake belly used for demonstration
purposes only
Wearing the diastasis rehab splint is just one of the four steps of the program
So you need to do all four steps of the program to make your diastasis smaller during your pregnancy which is so important.
To prevent a c-section to help you push better and labor and for a faster recovery. I
recommend
start wearing a diastasis rehab splint in
Month 3 after the nausea has started because sometimes when you're bringing the muscles together and moving the organs back
You can get a little bit nauseous so wait until the nausea subsides
also in the first three months the major organs of your baby are being developed so you want to wait until they ask finished and
Just in general wait until you're feeling better. Which is second trimester
People wonder will wearing the Splint or doing the exercises hurt my baby, no
Because the purpose of the splint is just to bring the muscles and the connective tissue closer together
The uterus is very thick and the baby's surrounded by amniotic fluid
if you cannot wear a splint for some reason then
you can still do the exercises, but just use a scarf and
pull the Muscles closer together when you're doing the exercises because
If you do the exercises without bringing the muscles together then they move in the wrong direction
so
You need to make sure that you get the right size for the splint
Okay, how do you measure?
You measure first of all your back size you want to measure the level
The your back at the level right under your breast so you go from one side seam
To the other side seam because the pad needs to rest on the stack so you
May be a small Pad and then for the next measurement is the circumference of your body?
You're going to need longer arms
Okay, most important is that the pad size fits you
to accommodate for the
growing belly
We have what's called extenders, and I'm going to show you how to put them on
so that's the second measurement is the circumference of your body around your belly at the biggest part and then the the
Third one is
From the bottom of your sternum to your belly button
Alright, this is to determine if you have a long torso an average towards over a short torso
During pregnancy with the bigger Belly though
Sometimes women want to wear two splints for more coverage, so those are the three measurements
And now I'm going to show you how to put on the diastasis rehab splint
Okay, here's the Pad
the Loop, Velcro
Is on the outside the label is always on the left side on the one-armed side
So I put this around my back and you see
it
rests on my side
Okay, so how do I put it on okay?
So I'm going to take the top arm, and I'm going to bring it around like this
okay, and
I
Have a mirror here. That was a little bit, too
Low, so I wanted him to lift it up, so because you always have to put the splint on in front of a mirror
So that you see what you're doing
Okay, so I'm looking in the mirror here. That's now at the perfect height I bend my knees
I bring my belly to the spine and I
Move this over here. I move the muscle over I hold it here and then I turn to the side
But you see I can't attach it because it's what the arm is too short, so I need an extender
Just one, please. Thank you
So on this extender you see there's the loop Velcro that's on both sides, but you attach it
The Velcro has to be facing down. So you attach it on that side you can you can attach it anywhere on here
But I want to make it shorter
Okay, I want to make it shorter here
So I attach it right here. If I wanted to make it longer
Then I would attach it further back, so I'm going to attach it right here
Okay, so now I'm going to gather it up here bend my knees belly button to the spine
I've moved the muscle over. I hold it here with the other hand and then I'm able to now
Turn to the side and Velcro it on the side
Okay, now remember you don't want to do it this
Sticky piece of Velcro called the hook doesn't want to go on top here because that's gonna scratch you so follow that
Vecro needs to be on the Pad of the splint
If it's too, low, it's gonna interfere with this effort
Okay, so I pulled this arm down, so it's not in the way, and then I adjust this so it's even going across the top
then I take the next arm, okay, and I
Hold my belly button to the spine and then use your bent, and then I move the muscle over
All right, and this one's going on a diagonal and again, and I can't I can't
So I'm gonna need another extender
okay, so I'm going to
Make sure that this velcro is facing down and then I'm going to attach it right here
Okay, so let's start again. I'm gonna bend my knees belly button to the spine hold it there this comes across
And then I'm gonna attach it on top here
Okay, and then I'm Gonna move this down
okay, I
Made sure to demonstrate with a beige splint and a black extender so that you could see where I was attaching it
We do have beige extenders though to go with the beige
Splints and black extenders to go with the black splints, and then the bottom one I pulled this one down
Okay, bend my knees belly button to the spine. I'm moving the muscle to the middle
And I'm almost there, but not quite
So I need my last extender, okay?
Make sure the Velcro was facing down and then I attach it, right
Up on the top because I don't need that much and then I attach it right here
So right there
So this is how you put on the diastasis. We have split with the extenders
Hope this was helpful. Thanks