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What does TVA stand for?

Transverse Abdominis (abdominal muscle)


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Samples in periodicals archive:
If you take a deep breath in and push it out , you will feel the Transverse Abdominis at work.
Miller MI, Medeiros JM: Recruitment of internal oblique and transverse abdominis muscles during the eccentric phase of the curl-up exercise.
The transverse abdominis is not always the most important muscle group.
Anchoring: By doing this movement, you will use all of your ab muscles; even the deepest muscle called the transverse abdominis.
For instance the transverse abdominis, a muscle that wraps around your spine and provide stability, is located beneath your external obliques, internal obliques which in turn are underneath your rectus abdominis muscles.
The inner unit consists of smaller, more static stabilizing muscles such as the transverse abdominis, multifidus, and the pelvic floor and diaphragmatic musculature.
But you should also make sure to work the oblique and Transverse Abdominis.

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