Tummy Tuck: Q&A
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After the tummy tuck, will my muscles respond to exercise better?
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Tightening muscles with a Tummy Tuck
I'm going to try to answer this question with as little doctor-speak as possible. When you gain and lose a lot of weight or go through pregnancy your tummy gets stretched out and then relaxes back down. The muscles of your tummy also stretch out. The main muscles we are talking about are two big muscles that run up and down in the middle of your tummy. They are called the rectus abdominus muscles. They are supposed to be side by side like two columns right next to each other. With weight...
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Muscle tightening during tummy tuck
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There are some misunderstanding about muscle tightening among patients. It is frequently believed that the muscles are cut and sewn tighter. In reality, muscles are deisgned to stretch and contract so the pregnancy process doesnt so much as stretch the muscles as much as it stretches the enveloping connective tissue of the muscles and in between the muscles. That is why women who have had children see a laxity or roundness of their abdomen after childbirth....
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After the tummy tuck, will my muscles respond to exercise better?
Pregnancy and child birth, the ability to expand a uterus to a full term is associated with a progressive unrelenting distention and stretching not only of the uterus but of everything in its path. You cannot have skin stretch marks without having previously stretched and split, to a varying degree, the tummy muscles. As a result, to RESTORE the tummy to its pre-baby(ies) look, if not better, the muscles MUST be "taken in" to the size AND location they wetre in before the...
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Muscles tightening with abdominoplasty
The muscles are not really "tightened". The rectus muscles (six-pack muscles) are brought closer together in the midline by stitching the fascia that envelops them. Muscles themselves don't hold stitches very well but fascia is a strong as packing tape and it sort of looks like packing tape.
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Repair of muscle separation can help core muscle strength
The stretching forces of pregnancy can cause the rectus abdominis muscles to pull apart from each other. This is called rectus diastasis. When this happens, the position of all the muscles of the abdominal wall shift out of position, upsetting the balance of your "core" or abdominal wall and back. Tightening the connective tissue between the rectus muscles, to pull both muscles back into the middle so they are right up against each other, restores the proper...
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Muscle tightening during tummy tuck
Abdominal wall tightening (muscle plication) is performed routinely during a tummy tuck procedure. This is basiclally done by using permanent stitches and forming a pleat, like a tailor would do when taking in a shirt, which runs vertically from the pubic bone up to the sternum (breast bone). This creates a flat appearing abdomen by relocating the abdominal muscles back into their original position. Pregnancy, aging and weight fluctuations can weaken these muscles.
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Muscle repair with tummy tuck
The muscles of the abdomen like all parts of the body are encased in a fibrous envelope (fascia), so the muscle repair actually involves stitches into the fascia. This is necessary because the muscles often get pushed apart with pregnancy, but the direction of muscle contraction doesn't pull them together with exercise. Muscle tone is always a matter of exercise so the results of working out after tummy tuck may look better than without but the surgery won't make the muscles stronger.
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How Are the Muscles Tightened in a Tummy Tuck?
You have asked 2 different questions in my reading of your posting. One is technical, in that, the method of recti plication is that issue. Each doc has their methods of suture, incisional, mesh plication. As gfor the second issue of better muscle response after TT. I know of no studies showing or responding to this issue.
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Vertical & Horizontal Tightening of the Muscles
Expansion of the abdomen following pregnancy of excessive weight gain & subsequent loss will cause separation of the muscles away from the midline. Muscle tightening involves in approximating the separated muscles and sawing them in the midline. If there is horizontal laxity of the muscles, horizontal tightening of the tissues covering the muscles will result in tighter and flatter abdomen and significantly improved waistline. After adequate healing of minimum 2 months...
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5 important points about tightening muscles in a Tummy Tuck
5. the Rectus Abdomini (your six pack) that was stretched with pregnancy or weight gain if you haven't obviously been pregnant. It needs to be tightened.
4. The muscles are not cut, but are "Imbricated" (folded centrally and sewed to tighten) in a "north-to-south" position.
3. If you are a "massive weight loss" patient (classified as greater than 70 pounds) you may also have an imbrication in the...
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