Which exercises are safe for people with diastasis?

You may have been told that you shouldn't plank, run or do various sits up with a diastasis. Spend a little time on google and you will find lots of diastasis "safe" and "unsafe" exercises.

The fact is that everyone is different, because diastasis isn’t a blanket diagnosis and functional ability varies person to person. One person may dome when they front plank, but be fine when they do a sit up; some one else might be the opposite. It's so important to get a proper assessment of the linea alba and core muscle activation doing functional movements, otherwise you may be missing out on that high level yoga class unnecessarily. 

A physiotherapist can assess the size and tension of a diastasis gap, but also the functional movements or exercises that doming. Once this has been established, a suitable strengthening programme can be given to regain strength and control to prevent doming in those specific movement planes.