Rehabilitation after SMAS lifting
SMAS lifting is a serious operation, so after it the patient needs to undergo a fairly long recovery. The doctor monitors the patient’s condition for several days after surgery, so this time needs to be spent in the clinic.
After discharge, you must follow all the surgeon’s recommendations to eliminate or minimize possible complications. For example, the doctor prescribes antibiotics to prevent infections at the incision site, otherwise the wound will have to be washed and new stitches applied.
You should get used to sleeping on your back on a high pillow. For the first week, you will have to wear a compression bandage around the clock, and treat the sutures with antiseptic agents twice a day. As a rule, the doctor removes them after two weeks.
It is necessary to abstain from bad habits - alcohol and smoking - for at least two weeks. But you will have to wait a while with the good ones. Sports, like other physical activities, especially bending and lifting weights, are best postponed for 1-2 months. You should not visit the pool and sauna for the same amount of time.
For six months after SMAS lifting, you should not sunbathe or spend a lot of time in the sun - otherwise, along with the golden color of your skin, you will get overgrown scars.
How does SMAS lifting work?
Before surgery, it is necessary to consult a therapist, cardiologist, neurologist, ophthalmologist and otolaryngologist. You also need to take a number of tests: a general blood and urine test, fluorography, and an ECG.
The SMAS lifting operation is performed under general anesthesia. The surgeon makes an incision from the temporal region along the ear near the hairline. After this, the top layer of skin is pulled into the required position. The epidermal tissues are separated from the aponeurotic structures. Often, liposuction is performed along with this operation: they get rid of the double chin and overhanging cheeks. Excess fat layer is removed with a needle.
The tissue is stretched and fixed with several sutures in a new position to the shell of the bones at the temples. Next, the surgeon removes excess skin. After all stages, the seams are carefully masked, a fixing bandage is installed, which must be worn for several days.
The entire operation lasts at least 2 hours. Space plastic lasts an hour to an hour and a half
Possible complications after SMAS lifting
If you do not take the surgeon’s recommendations seriously, complications after surgery cannot be avoided:
- Hematomas. Most often, subcutaneous bruises resolve within 1-2 weeks, but sometimes blood may leak. Then it is necessary to bandage the vessel and remove the accumulated liquid.
- Infections. If you neglect antibiotics, you will have to wash the wound and apply new stitches.
- Loss of sensitivity in some areas of the skin. This can happen if the doctor touches a nerve during surgery. This goes away over time, but you need to undergo physical therapy.
More about procedures
Microcurrent therapy
Microcurrent therapy is the therapeutic use of low-frequency pulsed currents of ultra-low power to restore cellular metabolism. This therapy helps eliminate swelling and pain, feelings of parasthesia (numbness) in the postoperative period, enhances lymph flow and blood flow, stimulates cellular respiration, and increases tactile sensitivity. Microcurrents normalize the membrane potential of cells, open ion channels, activate cell enzymes, increase the synthesis of ATP, protein and lipids, accelerate tissue differentiation and regeneration.
Indications:
swelling of the face, eyelids, bruises, pain, consequences of injuries.
Contraindications:
pacemaker, cancer, diseases of the membranes of the brain, neuroses, psychogenic and ischemic pain.
Detox program
Using mesotherapy
cellular metabolism is restored, antioxidant therapy reduces the negative impact of anesthesia on the condition of the skin.
To improve the condition of your hair, you can use trichological meso-sessions
- they stimulate blood circulation in the hair follicles.
After the meso-detox program, lymphatic drainage and blood circulation improve, and free radicals are neutralized. As a result, healing occurs faster and the quality of the skin improves.
The procedure can be prescribed immediately after the sutures are removed in the postoperative period. The number of sessions is from 1 to 10, conducted once a week.
Peptide amino acid therapy
It is applicable both before surgical interventions for the purpose of tissue preparation, and after: plastic surgeries, laser procedures, thread lifting, chemical peels.
Photodynamic therapy HELEO4
The hardware procedure of photodynamic therapy is based on the influence of light rays of different directions. It can be used for rehabilitation after plastic surgery or invasive cosmetic procedures, and as an independent or complex procedure to improve skin quality, for skin health, for rejuvenation and lifting purposes. Can be used for both face and body. The number of procedures per course is determined individually.
The program on the device itself is also individually selected, the parameters of which can be adjusted by the doctor. The uniqueness of the therapy is that the device acts on cells that no longer perform their functions fully, removes them from the body, and also stimulates the work of fibroblasts. That is why the effect is so noticeable.
Procedure: The doctor applies a photosensitizer gel with the necessary set of components. After a certain exposure time, the HARMONIA LED PRO photodynamic lamp comes into operation. Special glasses are required during the procedure for both the doctor and the patient. For about 30 minutes, under a blanket, the patient lies under a light lamp. Photodynamic therapy HELEO4 is an extremely comfortable procedure that does not require anesthesia.
Indications: Age-related, structural changes in the skin, preparation for invasive procedures, accelerated recovery after plastic surgery and other damaging effects (laser, injections, etc.), various skin pathologies, post-acne, etc.
Contraindications: Exacerbations of chronic diseases, epilepsy, pregnancy, photosensitivity, skin cancer, autoimmune skin diseases, therapy with photosensitizing drugs, patients with poor adaptation to light, large doses of radiation exceeding the compensatory capabilities of the body, which have a pronounced negative effect.
More details about the procedure with comments from a cosmetologist: Photodynamic therapy HELEO4
The use of photodynamic therapy HELEO4 is successfully used as rehabilitation after plastic surgery and invasive cosmetic procedures.
The effectiveness of physiotherapeutic rehabilitation
On average, if you adhere to the above recommendations, the recovery period after facelift and rejuvenation takes several weeks. But given the fact that medical science is constantly evolving, today patients who have undergone facial plastic surgery have the opportunity to improve their prognosis and reduce recovery time.
We are talking about unique techniques available in the arsenal of modern clinics. Has proven its effectiveness:
- physiotherapy;
- Hivamat therapy;
- lpg- massage;
- PRP therapy.
The duration and composition of the set of procedures are selected individually. This approach provides the best results. Under the influence of unique physiotherapeutic techniques, microcirculation of blood and lymph is activated,
fluid intercellular exchange is normalized, swelling and congestion are eliminated, normal metabolism is restored.
Waste and toxins are quickly eliminated from the body. The energy that would be spent on neutralizing them is directed by the body to activate collagen production and speedy healing of the wound surface.
Physiotherapy also reduces pain in the postoperative period, relieving inflammation, improving tone and promoting rapid resolution of hematomas. Patients who have completed a course of individual rehabilitation physiotherapy feel better, do not lose their usual comfort of life and are much less likely to encounter the need for psychological help.
