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We routinely ask our patients to avoid strenuous physical activity, such as lifting weights, for at least three weeks after surgery. We also ask patients to avoid contact soprts, such as wrestling or football, for a total of six weeks after surgery. It is important to check with your doctor and see what he or she specifically recommends.
It is important to take thenecessary precautions following surgery to allow the body ample time to heal inorder to obtain the best results possible. We instruct patients to wait one month afterhaving surgery before starting to lift weights.
That depends on what method was used to pin your ears. If your otoplasty was performed with the stitch method, you can already lift weights on the following day.
Thank you for your question. You should wait at least one month after the surgery before lifting weights. The initial healing will be completed. It is better to safe than sorry.
Sometimes fluid can get into the ear canal after surgery - e.g. blood or antiseptic fluid - making it feel the way you're describing, such as when you 'get water in your ear' in a pool. If it doesn't resolve on its own, be sure to follow up with your plastic surgeon and they can address it for...
I am absolutely against this, I do never ever use permanent sutures in otoplasties, since the consequence is ALWAYS what you are clearly depicting.Find a surgeon who can remove them under local in an office based procedure.
I am a so-called "rhinoplasty surgeon", this means a subvariety of rare species who feels comfortable doing any kind of challenging or difficult noses, even those in need of cartilage harvesting from ear. As you can imagine I had the opportunity to harvest hundreds of ears in my career, and I...
I would think that it would be fine for you to lift weights a month after your ear surgery, but it is always best to check with your particular surgeon. The most important thing is not to have any direct trauma or pulling to the ear.
David Furnas MD a plastic surgeon in Sacremento, California described a procedure for fixing prominent concha. The basic technique is to set it back with a stitch or remove a portion of it prior to stitching it back.
I would definitely get it evaluated by your doctor and have it stitched right away. I would not wait on it