Patients should start light walking immediately after surgery – nothing strenuous, just short walks around the room or home every other hour. This is good for the circulation and helps prevent blood clots. After two weeks, patients can start more intense cardio such as walking on a treadmill or walking uphill.
For the first two to three weeks after your procedure, it's important to focus on resting, healing, and limiting your activities. While short walks can increase blood flow through your body to improve healing and minimize the risk of blood flow, anything greater than that can cause serious injury.
Exercising and Activity Two Weeks After Breast Augmentation
Because the breasts are still healing, it's still important to abstain from more intensive exercising, especially anything that strains or stresses the upper body or results in excessive breast movement.
Therefore, during the initial four weeks after surgery, breast augmentation patients should avoid overusing their pectoral muscles. Typically, this means lifting nothing heavier than 10 pounds. No heavy pulling or pushing of objects such as car doors or even heavy purses, and no weight training.
Many patients ask me when they can work out after breast augmentation surgery. Patients should start light walking immediately after surgery – nothing strenuous, just short walks around the room or home every other hour.
Your breast implants may appear to be bigger or fuller once they've dropped to a lower, more natural-looking position on your chest and "fluffed" into a rounder and softer shape. Changes in the size or shape of your new breasts after augmentation can also occur as swelling and tightness subside.
Having an operation means that you need time to recover. Light housework such as dusting or washing up can be good exercise but we do advise avoiding heavy housework for a good 2 weeks. Try to do a little extra each day but be sure to rest between tasks if you feel tired.
During the third week after your surgery, you can increase your activities slowly. You may take longer walks. You may begin performing some light housework, cleaning one room of the house but not the whole house. Your return appointment will be 2 weeks after your surgery.
There should be no housework at all for the first two days. Avoid overheating and excitement of any kind during this period of time to eliminate the possibility of accidental injury or bruising. A shower can be taken after the first full day.
In the first 1 to 2 weeks, you can use your arm normally up to shoulder height for light activities, such as face washing, hair brushing and eating. But avoid lifting your arm above the height of your shoulder. Don't lift anything heavy, but you can use your arm to lift a cup of tea.
Get plenty of rest and sleep
Some DVDs, books and magazines will help pass the time. You will be walking immediately after surgery, slowly regaining your strength. Just remember to listen to your body, getting plenty of sleep and relaxation, as you heal.
It can be due to the anesthesia drugs or pain medication, which can slow down one's bowels. A lack of movement due to the fact that patients' activity is generally limited for some time, can also contribute to this as well. Overall, slow digestion can cause both stomach bloating and constipation.
Walking is one of the best activities to do while you're recovering after surgery. This includes walking with or without help from a person or an assistive device, such as a walker.
These body systems are slowed down after surgery. Walking also improves blood flow and speeds wound healing. Failure to walk may cause increased constipation and gas pain and weakness, and puts you at a higher risk for infections, blood clots and lung problems such as pneumonia.
While you are still in the hospital after surgery, you may be encouraged to walk once you are able. Do one lap around your ward three to six times a day. By day four, back at home, you should be walking for five full minutes, up to six times a day.
Be sure to shower, not bathe for the first two weeks following your procedure. You should also take care to blot dry your breasts and the incision area with a clean towel after they get wet.
Complete Rest: 2 Days
You don't require strict bed rest after breast augmentation. In fact, it's important for you to get up and walk around to help blood circulation and expand your lungs.
After surgery, the implants tend to ride hide and appear small due to the patient's skin tightness in the area. There is tightness because the implants increase dimension to breast tissue causing the skin to compress the implant's shape and size.
Hair washing- Depending on your type of surgery, you may be unable to wash your hair for several days. If this is the case, you can use "No-Rinse" in place of shampooing. Unless instructed otherwise, you may gently brush your teeth and use mouthwash.
As far as wearing the bra to bed at night, that is optional. If the patient has undergone a reshaping of an existing scar tissue pocket at the time of the breast surgery, however, we advise that the bra be worn for six weeks at night while sleeping.
Post-operative bloating and swelling usually peaks 2-3 days after surgery and most subsides by about 3 months. Bloating and swelling occur after plastic surgery for a number of reasons: You aren't as active as you usually are.
As a result, the implants settle into a lower, more aesthetically pleasing position on the chest. They appear softer and rounder, and they look larger and closer together. Hence, “drop” (settle lower) and “fluff” (round out and look fuller).
In as few as a few days, patients may begin to notice their implants begin to settle. By several weeks, the implants will be near their final resting position. The three-month mark is typically the latest that movement will be noticed. Athletes with strong chest muscles may require more time to notice breast settling.
Because of these consequences, it's crucial to ease back into things. Start by taking short walks around the room immediately after surgery. Climbing the stairs is also appropriate. Early ambulation boosts circulation and helps prevent blood clots.