I Had Botox a Week Ago and Want to Know if It is Safe to Do Facial Exercise?

By one week no facial exercise or massage will disturb the Botox. Ordinary exercise is fine a day after Botox.  I ask patients to avoid a facial massage for the first 48 hours after Botox injections.

With fillers, the more an area is manipulated, the shorter the effect of the filler.

 

Mark Lucarelli, MD, FACS

Madison, WI

Dear Misfortune

Generally, we allow patients to engage in exercise after 24 hours.  A bigger question is why would you want to waste your time with so-called facial exercises.  These are purported to benefit facial tone and reduce the appearance of aging.  Unfortunately there is absolutely not a scrap of evidence that they are beneficial in any way.  In fact, they may actually be counter-productive.  Effective exercise of these muscle will increase their mass.  Bulking up these muscles is generally considered unattractive.  You are probably working against the effect of the BOTOX treatments.  For that reason, facial exercises are not recommended.

Hi Misfortune.  It is perfectly safe to exercise the muscles of your face one week after injection.  By this time the Botox has already been absorbed in the muscle and will not migrate.

We would say that when using Botox and dermal fillers, your results will probably not last as long if you are constantly exercising the face that if you were not exercising the facial muscles.  Generally speaking, the less movement the face has with these products, the longer they last.