Factors causing diastasis recti during pregnancy such as increased levels of relaxant, progesterone, and estrogen hormones that cause softening of the tissue and weakening of the fragile alba line that tends to flow from the xiphoid process to the symphysis pubis and under the influence of hormonal changes. And continuous stretching is placed in the abdominal wall by growing the fetus. As a result, the amount of tension in a structure has weakened resulting in a tendency to separate and produce diastasis recti The purpose of this study was to analyze the effect of puerperal exercise with the size of the abdominal rectus diastasis in postpartum mothers in the Kedung Health Center in Jepara Regency This type of research is Quasi Experimental Static Group Comparison Design. The Longitudinal Time Serie approach method. The population in this study was postpartum mothers, amounting to 85 postpartum mothers. Sample selection using the Slovin method so that of the total number of postpartum mothers there were 46 respondents who were sampled. The observation sheet measuring instrument. The research test technique used the Wilcoxon. The result showed that there was an effect of puerperal exercise with the size of the abdominal rectus diastasis in postpartum mothers, with a p-value of 0,003 <0.05, then Ha was accepted and Ho was rejected. There is an influence between puerperal gymnastics and the size of the abdominal rectus diastasis in postpartum mothers in the Kedung Public Health Center in Jepara.
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