Renee Bergum DPT

Well said, Heather Graham:

"Beyond skincare and fitness, Graham credits one lesser-known wellness practice with helping her feel her best: craniosacral therapy. “It’s kind of like a massage of your nervous system,” she says of the hands-on treatment that uses gentle pressure on the head, neck and back to relieve stress and pain. “When I leave, I feel so relaxed,” she adds, “like I can really see all the good in life.”"

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Spoiler alert: A cesarean or c-section apron or shelf is not just cosmetic and you don't have to be overweight to develop a c-section shelf.

If you have a c-section shelf, be aware that bodywork like scar tissue mobilization, visceral manipulation, and craniosacral fascial therapy (CFT) can help!

The cesarean apron: description, proposed pathophysiology, classification, and prevention through scarpa fascia closure at cesarean delivery The “cesarean apron,” also known as a cesarean bulge, pouch, or shelf, is a frequent but often overlooked postoperative deformity of the lower abdominal wall that may occur even after uncomplicated cesarean delivery. It is characterized by redundant skin and subcutaneous adipose tissue that over...

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Abdominopelvic Interrelationships: Analysis by the_drjoe

“Your abdomen isn’t just organs packed together - it’s organized by a giant membrane called the peritoneum 🎯 This is how your gut is suspended, protected, and given room to move.

*What you’re seeing in this sagittal view:*

*Peritoneal sacs - the spaces:*
- *Greater sac*: The main peritoneal cavity. It’s the big pink space holding most of your intestines, stomach, and liver.
- *Lesser sac*: The “omental bursa” behind the stomach. It’s a separate compartment connected to the greater sac through the *epiploic foramen*. Surgeons care about this because infections and fluid can get trapped here.

*Peritoneal folds - the connections:*
- *Lesser omentum*: Connects liver to stomach and duodenum. Holds the portal triad - portal vein, hepatic artery, bile duct.
- *Greater omentum*: Hangs off the stomach like an apron. Fatty, mobile, and called the “policeman of the abdomen” because it walls off infections.
- *Transverse mesocolon & Sigmoid mesocolon*: Attach transverse and sigmoid colon to the posterior abdominal wall, carrying blood vessels and nerves.
- *Mesentery*: The fan-like fold attaching small intestine to the back wall. Everything you eat passes through it.

*Pouches - potential spaces:*
- *Rectouterine pouch*: The deepest point in females. Fluid, blood, pus collects here.
- *Uterovesical pouch*: Between bladder and uterus.
- *Rectovesical pouch*: The male equivalent.

*Organs shown*: Liver with *caudate lobe*, stomach, *third part of duodenum*, pancreatic body, uterus, re**um, urinary bladder, p***c symphysis.

Why this matters: Peritonitis, ascites, and tumor spread all follow these spaces. Know the peritoneum, and you can predict where disease will go.

What’s crazier: that your small intestine is suspended by a 6-foot-long mesentery, or that the greater omentum actively moves to contain infections? Ever thought about how much organization is inside your belly?”

- thedrjoe

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