I had surgery for ruptured bicep in January. they could not repair all the way back to shoulder and anchored it to pictorial muscle. now i have spasms through out the day and when i do any thing to flex bicep i get sharp pain and bicep stays flexed for a long period of time. muscle relaxers help a little with the spasms but not the pain or flexing when i use it. Botox has been recommended but worried about side effects and it will even work?
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I'm sorry you had this experience. It sounds like you received too few units for the areas you wanted treated. When you are under-treated in an area, it can cause other muscles in the area to over compensate for those treated, resulting in an unnatural look. It can be fixed by returning to your...
It's hard to say for sure without an in-person evaluation, but very stubborn frown lines can often see improvement through a combination of BOTOX and injectable fillers. Injectable fillers add volume and fill in deep lines and indentations, while BOTOX temporarily paralyzes the muscles so the...
An off-label use of Botox in the jaw is a nice non-surgical option to make the jaw fuller. This will slim the masseter muscle over the actual jaw bone and gives the overall symmetric appearance.
