Breast Augmentation: Use Massage Therapy Afterwards!
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A website devoted to massage shows the power of a technique that is only now beginning to be fully understood.
Massage.com is offering a peek at a March article in the print edition of Massage Magazine. It tells how massage therapy was found to reduce both short and long term pain and anxiety in cancer patients with bone pain.
That is some pain!
And, according to Medical News Today, massage may help ease pain and anxiety after major surgery. Of course, major pain is not often a part of plastic surgery, but massaging definitely helps.
Massaging can help make sure that you end up with the best possible results after your breast augmentation.
Some plastic surgeons use massage therapists who perform a type of rub-down, known as manual lymphatic drainage before and after surgery. That massage is said to reduce swelling, pain and bruising that may result from some cosmetic and reconstructive procedures.
One Florida plastic surgeon even combines massage with liposuction and claims better results.
But for breast enhancement, the massage is different and you don’t need a specialist; you can do it yourself. What’s more, you may protect your investment in a new, attractive bust line.
In some cases after surgery, the body will try and wall off a breast implant because your immune system sees the implant as a foreign invader.
When that happens, scar tissue surrounds the implant and squeezes it, causing the implant to feel hard. Known as capsular contracture, the condition also allows the enhanced breasts to look distorted and uneven.
Capsular contracture is the most common complications and leading causes of breast revision surgery. It happens more often when the implant is place atop – and not under – the patient’s chest muscle.
But if the patient has quit smoking (read a post about smoking and plastic surgery) and gone through the proper de-contamination routine with germicidal skin washes just before surgery, she vastly decreases any chances of capsular contracture.
And if she performs a suggested massage routine on herself for several weeks after the operation, she increases the chances of having a natural looking bust line.
See a demonstration of the breast implant massage.
admin @ February 6, 2009