For most people, the term "diastasis recti" evokes a very specific image: a postpartum woman rebuilding her core after childbirth. It is a legitimate association, but an incomplete one. In clinics like ours, we are seeing more and more men present with the same condition. Active adults. Weightlifters. Men in their 40s and 50s who have noticed a change in their midsection they cannot explain, or who are experiencing core weakness, back pain, or a subtle bulging along the front of their...

If you've ever felt like just another chart number in a waiting room, or had your care plan cut short because your insurance said "enough," you already know the frustration that drives so many active adults to look for a better option.

You know the feeling. You lace up, head out, and somewhere in the first mile, something is not quite right. It is not pain, exactly. It is not injury. It is just a nagging sense that your stride is off, your hip is not moving the way it usually does, your knee is a little louder than it should be, or your energy is not translating into effort the way it did a few weeks ago. Most runners recognize this feeling. And most runners keep running through it, hoping it works itself out, wondering if...