Can Restylane Be Manipulated After Injection?

Please do not massage the area. Massage should be performed by your injector, so it's best if you see your injector for a followup if the lumps don't resolve themselves in a week or so.

Rather than do the massage/manipulation yourself, I would return to your provider to have them do this for you. It's definitely not uncommon to massage/manipulate, but I always recommend the patient return for better results.

I never want my patients to manipulate the filler themselves.  Generally it is difficult to do this manipulation and get things right.  It is best to accurately place the Restylane in the first place.  Precise placement of a tiny bead of Restylane along the vermillion edge is critical.  This avoids the white roll and the red roll from looking like they are part of the same hot dog.  The Restylane can also be shaped with the enzyme hyaluronidase.  Your injector may not be sufficiently advanced to help you.  Consider see Dr. Julie Woodward at Duke to have this issue corrected.

Most of the time, Restylane can easily be smoothed by gentle manipulation , but it is best done by the provider to ensure that it does not track elsewhere or cause undue inflammation

Yes, restylane can be manipulated after treatment.  If you do not like the position, alert the injector.  Do not attempt to correct on your own.

I have massaged Restylane for my patients weeks after injection, with good results.  Your product should be able to be smoothed out via massage.  I reccommend returning to your injector, who should do this for free, rather than trying it yourself.

In our practice we usually manipulate the product right after it is injected.  You can manipulate the product for about a week after injections.

 Not only can fillers be manipulated after injection, they should be IMHO.  Once any filler be it Restylane, Juvederm, Perlane, Radieese or Sculptra...we always take time to massage and shape the injected filler material properly.  We then ask all filler patients to refrain massaging the area (except for Sculptra that requires continued massage).  The filler becomes integrated into the tissues within the first several days after which it's no longer able to be manipulated.  

Yes, it can be moved around for quite awhile after it's been injected, which is why I always tell my patients not to do this! Moving it around yourself can move it into a bad area, even into an area that can block blood flow in the lips, so if you think it needs to be adjusted, please return to your injector. Don't try to move it around yourself!!!