These are the outermost muscles of the abdominal wall and help you turn your trunk from side to side. Internal obliques. Also known as the obliquus internus abdominis, ...

The surgery might have weakened the abdominal wall muscles, making them vulnerable to tearing. ... Your hernia changes color. Your hernia becomes numb. You have a fever, nausea, or vomiting.

It’s normal for pregnant women to experience separation of the parallel muscle band of the anterior mid-abdominal wall known as diastasis recti abdominis (DRA) — about two thirds of mothers-to ...