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Activity After Tummy Tuck and Intense Zumba Dancing

asked 1 year ago by Sandra1420 in Florida
Latest answer by Steven Wallach, MD
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Tags: activity, dancing, exercise

Had a Circumferential Tuck 4 weeks ago. I feel pretty good. Doctor tells me I am only allowed to walk inside the house? And I can drive and do some shopping but he yelled at me when I said I was taking slow walks outside and said that I can't do that until 6 weeks? That sounds very strange to me. I asked when he feels I can safely go back to intense zumba dancing and he said 6 weeks post op. How do I go from not much walking to intense zumba. Weird so I want to ask other doctors

2 answers to Activity After Tummy Tuck and Intense Zumba Dancing

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Post surgery exercise

Every surgeon is a bit different and under different circumstances there are different directions. In general, I allow my patients if they have healed well to start aerobics by about 3-4 weeks and heavy lifting by about 6-8 weeks.
Steven Wallach, MD

Manhattan Plastic Surgeon
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Unusual recommendations after Bodylift

I agree! Allowing unusual activity 6 weeks but not 5 weeks after surgery  appears arbitrary.  Activities are generally instituted in a gentle way with increasing resistance. It is my guess this surgeon may have experienced adverse results ina patient who resumed normal activities and an earlier date.
Otto Joseph Placik, MD

Chicago Plastic Surgeon

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