When is it safe to exercise after breast augmentation
When Can I Exercise after a Breast Augmentation? | Dr. Daniel Shapiro
hi I'm doctor Dan Shapiro plasterers
certified by the American Board of
plastic surgery I've been performing
cosmetic or plastic surgery in the
Scottsdale Paradise Valley area since
1992 and all I perform is cosmetic or
SATA cloth surgery I'm here in
Scottsdale and you can't be a plastic
surgeon in Scottsdale Arizona without
doing a lot of breast surgery I
performed tons and tons of breast
augmentation and once again I currently
when I'm making this movie I've been in
practice for 22 years and a thousand
thousands of breast augmentation you
know everybody's impatient and a common
question is you know how how long can I
expect to be uncomfortable after breast
augmentation and how long before I can
get back to normal activities in terms
of lifting in terms of doing any sports
in terms of feeling more normal the way
to answer that question is to understand
what I'm doing with breast augmentation
if I am putting a breast implant above
the pectoralis muscle for some reason
that recovery is quite simple and it
really is literally days before you're
feeling completely back to normal and
you can resume more normal activities
there are a slew of different implants
that we use now some of which are
textured some of which are not that may
require some massaging technique every
day after surgery but generally if your
implants are above the muscle you can
get back to a more normal activity
almost immediately we like to have
people massage and butt-butt-butt with
regards to lifting and any sports
activity almost immediately I say within
the first week or so you can get back to
your schedule now the majority of the
implants that I put in are beneath the
pectoralis muscle for reasons that they
tend to stay soft or longer in most
patients they tend to look a little bit
more natural and the capsular
contracture rate which is the hardening
is less when you put them beneath the
muscle but everything has a price so
when we go beneath the muscle I'm
actually elevating the muscle and
partially removing it from the chest
wall and there are some not problems but
trade-offs with that I think it's more
uncomfortable for the first week or so
generally people that have not had
children I think it takes about a week
before you're feeling you know 100% and
people of the patch children usually
takes a couple of days we often have to
deal with
so spasms so we give valium to help
decrease those spasms but lifting and
activities that way are somewhat limited
generally within the first three weeks
or so
when implants have put beneath the
muscle we like the patient to wear a
bandeau that helps push the implant down
to fill the most inferior portion of the
pocket when lifting and a lot of
patients have very young children we
like to have people keep their arms
close to their body to use their core
body for for leverage instead of using
their arms and the pectoralis muscle and
and gradually people can start doing
more activities within a first two to
three weeks people can start running
usually people wear a couple of sports
bras for extra support when the implants
have beneath the muscle and and and it
takes a while for those implants to go
from a higher position to a lower
position by about six weeks I feel
comfortable for people using their
pectoralis muscle more liberally in
terms of doing a chest exercising and
doing almost activity almost any
activity that you want with the thought
that there might be some discomfort
usually which can be treated with a
non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug
whether it be motrin or Aleve or or
anything of that sort
but all in all it depends upon where the
implants are place it depends upon
whether you've had children or not and
it depends upon once again communication
so we don't take a step forward where
you do too much too fast
but overall patients generally get back
to doing whatever they want by about six
weeks in that meantime we kind of try to
slow you back a little bit so you don't
find any discomfort and and sometimes
when people do a little bit too much too
fast those implants will stay a little
bit high too long and and and that's
what valium is for but the best way to
understand is come in and talk and we
get it going that way thank you
