Abdominal Muscles

1. INTRODUCTION

The abdominal muscles form the anterior and lateral abdominal wall and consist of the external abdominal obliques, the internal abdominal obliques, the rectus abdominis and the transversus abdominus . Their function is to protet the viscera, to help maintain posture and to compress the abdominal contents , thus raising intra-abdominal pressure such as in sneezing, coughing, micturating, defecating, lifting and childbirth.