I wanted to let one of our physicians answer this question, but I did want
to comment on a single item mentioned in John's original post. He
mentioned doing situps. If you don't learn anything else about physical
fitness this year, learn this: situps work your hip flexion muscle, not
your abdominals. They also have been known to contribute to hernia and
back problems. Even the army is currently rethinking their position on
this exercise (as they did deep knee bends a generation ago - after many
military personnel had developed chronic knee problems.)
Mark Montgomery
> >First of all, I began noticing a small, squishy,
> > roundish mass just above my belly-button about six months ago. It
> >
> > Then these past couple weeks I have begun noticing something a bit
> > lower down, just above my pubic region (being clinical here) on the
> > right side. At first I noticed the odd twinge as I was singing, then
> Almost certainly the first one is an umbilical hernia and the second one an
> inguinal hernia. During singing, the increased abdominal wall pressure
> causes each to protrude.
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