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Any Hope for a Ropy Looking Neck?

asked 1 year ago by 5321anon in Concord
Latest answer by Steven Wallach, MD
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There's probably a better term for this, but I hate having those those vertical muscles (maybe tendons or ligaments) in my neck, but a deep canyon between them. I've never read about any way to help those. I see lots of beautiful women who've had surgery, but the neck!

13 answers to Any Hope for a Ropy Looking Neck?

Neck improvment

It sound slike you have loose skin and platysma banding but I can not e sure unless I examine you. If this is the case, then a neck lift or facelift with neck lift can give you the results you desire.

Steven Wallach, MD
Manhattan Plastic Surgeon

Treatment of platysma bands

The formal way to get rid of these bands is with surgery, usually in the form of a lower facelift. Thes bands are generally sutured and cut. Other forms of treatment in surgery are also sometimes needed. Botox can help a little but is only temporizing.

Richard P. Rand, MD, FACS
Seattle Plastic Surgeon

Treatment for a "ropy" neck

Those "ropes" are your platysma muscles, which attach to the undersurface of the skin, very superficially. They can be treated with Botox, which should work for 3-4 months, so it's a temporary solution. A permanent solution would be a platysmaplasty, which uses a small incision in the upper neck (beneath the chin), then plicates (sews together) the muscle edges, so they can't create that chasm between them anymore. This is an outpatient procedure. more

Carmen Kavali, MD
Atlanta Plastic Surgeon

Solutions for a "Ropy" looking neck!

Botox can relax the muscle that causes the bands. Surgical correction (for more severe bands) may involve incision of the bands. Suturing the muscle in the mid-line and re-susupension of the muscle.

Robert Sleightholm, MD
Brampton Plastic Surgeon

Option for neck cords or bands

Shortening of the anterior platysmal bands causes the ropes you are referring to. This is addressed through a lower face/neck lift where muscles are tightened along the front part of the jaw line between the chin and the Adam’s apple. The bands are then released down low over the thyroid area so that they lengthen, expand, and the cords go away. Neck fat will be addressed at the same time in addition to tightening any excess skin in the lower neck.

William Portuese, MD
Seattle Facial Plastic Surgeon

Treatment for neck bands

Neck muscles can be treated, to some extent, by diminishing their movement with Botox. This does create a smoothing effect, which may suit you. The absolute best treatment for repairing the neck muscles is a surgical one (i.e., a necklift). However, even this never fully eliminates muscle contraction.The platysma muscle movement is usually the source of the complaint you describe and while surgery treats it best it may still be visible to a minimal degree.

Deason Dunagan, MD
Huntsville Plastic Surgeon

Platysma bands

What you are referring too is called Platysmal banding. There is a muscle in the center of the neck that as we get older, in some of us, the center part will start to disintegrate. The solution for this problem is to surgically re-attach this 2 muscles into one in the center. This also should be performed with a Facelift for better results. Look for advise with your local Facial Plastic Surgeon.

Gustavo A. Diaz, MD
Charlotte Facial Plastic Surgeon

Treatment for neck bands

Those bands are the anterior border of the platysma muscle, a sheetlike muscle that runs across the neck and jawline. With age, they sag and pull away from the deeper attachments in the neck, and the overlying skin does something similar. There is only one solution, which is surgery. Botox is described and performed, but rarely is worth the money, and the results are not always impressive since the skin remains an uncorrected component. I also agree with the other... more

Kevin Robertson, MD
Madison Facial Plastic Surgeon

www.robertsonplasticsurgery.com

Ropy looking neck

These are platysma bands or neck cords, that are a facia/muscle. The options for treatment are from Botox injections to operating upon by cutting them. See 3 boarded plastic surgeons in your area to evaluate. From MIAMI Dr. B

Darryl J. Blinski, MD
Miami Plastic Surgeon

Neck bands

The vertical bands of the platysma muscle need to be tightened together with a neck/facelfit. For those patients who are adamant not to undergo surgery, Botox or Dysport can help flatten them slightly but this is temporary and the treatment ongoing, and there are risks that you would need to discuss with your doctor such as weakness of the neck and even swallowing if very rare cases.

Ronald Shelton, MD
Manhattan Dermatologist

Neck bands removed by face and neck lifts

These bands are common and may be from excess skin or separated muscles. No matter the cause, most facelift techniques can deal with them, if they are specifically addressed.

Robert T. Buchanan, MD
Highlands Plastic Surgeon

What to do for neck bands or cords.

These should be addressed with a full face lift where the band are excised and the remaining muscle forms a sling. If you just try to do a minilift of some name, they WILL recur.

Toby Mayer, MD
Beverly Hills Facial Plastic Surgeon

Corset platysmaplasty

The best way to treat the platysmal bands is to repair them. The best way is to put them completely back together again. Previously, many doctors have put only part of it back together - me included. But, in my hands complete repair gives the best, most durable results. This technique is the corset platysmaplasty.