To surgical methods of treating discrepancies of the rectus abdominis muscles

The divergence of the rectus abdominis muscles is a frequent occurrence that the surgeon has to meet and which has to be eliminated in one way or another by surgery. A similar diastasis of the rectus muscles we meet primarily not only in adults and the elderly. especially in multiparous women, but also in young subjects and even children. If you pay systematically attention to the condition of the rectus muscles in carriers of inguinal hernias, then it is not so rare to find in them, along with the inguinal hernia, also the divergence of the rectus abdominis muscles. Although such a discrepancy does not essentially represent a hernia, it is an expression of a weakening of the abdominal wall and must be corrected by surgery. In addition to the cases mentioned, as is known, we often meet cases of divergence of the rectus muscles, combined with hernias of the white line, incisional and umbilical hernias.