What is the Best Non-surgical Treatment for Sagging Underarms?

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Treatment for saggy upper arms

The best non-surgical treatment for the upper arms is exercise. Weight lifting can help tone your muscles, and some people believe that intense cardio exercises can tighten loose skin. But if you have a lot of loose skin on your upper arms, then you may need an arm lift in order to see a significant improvement. I would be very cautious of any non-invasive gimmicks that promise to tighten your skin. I suggest you visit with at least one board certified plastic surgeon who specializes... more

Treatment Option

I commend you for seeking options other than having surgery, but if it’s sagging skin, then unfortunately your best option is to have a brachioplasty (arm lift). If it is just excess fat you can try to seek the help of a trainer to increase your fitness routine to tighten and sculpt the area. But if is excess skin that is concerning you, then I highly suggest you seeing a board certified plastic surgeon to possibly combine liposuction and an incision on the inside of your arm to remove... more

Non surgical treatment for sagging underarms

The best non surgical treatment is to tone and build the muscles around yur arm. I recommend free weights to strengthen the 3 heads of your deltoid muscle, your biceps, and your triceps muscle.

Treatments for sagging arms

There are basically three treatments for loose skin of the arms. From least invasive to most invasive, they are: 1. Working out: Obviously, this is a non-surgical approach and is valuable for toning up the arms and filling out arms with only minimal loose skin. 2. Liposuction: Traditionally, liposuction of the arms was reserved for patients who had more rounded arms with more fat and little loose skin. With the advent of SmartLipo and SlimLipo,... more

Arm lifting surgery and scars

Unfortunately, there are no good nonsurgical treatments for “sagging arms”. Nevertheless, many gimmicks will come and go; the consumer must be wary. Direct excision of the “sagging” skin and adipose tissue is the only definitive way to improve the appearance of the upper arms. Scarring tends to be a major drawback with this operation (brachiaplasty) and should be considered heavily in the decision-making process by patients.

Non surgical tightening of upper arm skin

There is only one way to tighten loose skin of the upper arms - surgically remove it. Occasionally if there is very minimal excess, liposuction can trim the upper arms. Or if the triceps muscles are very developed, the slight excess skin can be filled out somewhat. No laser or cream can improve this area enough to be noticeable or worth the cost

None!

Unfortunately once the skin is stretched and becomes lax, in adults, I know of no 'non-surgical' technique that can tighten the skin. Only option is removing the excess skin which can only be done by surgery.

Anindya Lahiri, MBBS

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Birmingham Plastic Surgeon

Not many nonsurgical options

There are those who claim that various "lasers" will tighten skin in this area. Beware. Although most of these are safe,few if any are effective. I wouldn't waste your money but if surgery is not an option and you would not be upset if it didn't work, you can certainly consider trying. Surgery is the most direct solution and has the most rewarding and predictable outcome. The biggest negative is the scar. My patients feel the scar is well worth the results. more

Nonsurgical Treatment of Sagging Underarms

I personally do not feel that there is a satisfactory treatment of sagging underarms which does not involve surgery. This condition is due to excess skin which needs to be surgically removed. Although there may be some advantage, in some cases, of performing adjunctive liposuction, there is no replacement for surgical removal of excess skin.

What is the Best Non-surgical Treatment for Sagging Underarms?

Dr Rand says it right. Do not waste your $'s on these poorly resultant non surgical therapies. Whaat is the saying? " A sucker is born every minute!"

Triceps exercise is the best for the upper arm skin

There are zero non-surgical treatments that will be worth the money and the pain in my opinion. The only way to go it to become dedicated to triceps exercises and the added muscle volume and tone will drape the skin better and you will look more athletic and healthy.