Chest stretches before breast augmentation?

You do not need to stretch your muscles out.  You are correct however that working the muscle out and making it thicker does make the operation more difficult and might result in more pain.  So as long as you have not been doing chest press you should be fine.  

I don't believe any exercise you do to prepare for a sub muscular breast augmentation would alter the postoperative discomfort. Surgical technique is probably the most important factor for reducing pain. See a board-certified plastic surgeon to discuss your expectations regarding this postoperatively.

Although it's always a smart idea to be in the best possible shape prior to any surgery, muscle tightness and healing time post breast augmentation are mostly affected by the size of the implant and your body's own personal healing process. Larger implants typically take longer to heal and "drop" into the pocket than smaller implants.  

Thank you for your excellent question.  Though it is always best to have muscles that are not in spasm and tight as a result of exercising, the surgical creation of the implant pocket is not affected much by stretching before surgery.  The "tightness" of muscles after surgery, and as a consequence healing time, is more likely related to the size of the implant selected than the muscle.  Larger implants tend to require more time to settle, and the overlying skin to redrape, then smaller implants.  Hope that this helps. 

As you probably know post surgical pain is Multi-Factorial. It is affected by ethnicity, sex, age, gender and surgical technique, As regards Breast Augmentation, precise handling of the muscles, avoidance of injury to the muscles by pulling and blunt dissection, avoidance of injury to the underlying rib cartilages have yielded much happier patients. There is NO demonstrable evidence that pre-stretching the pectoralis muscles before the operation would result in any benefits in pain relief or faster recovery.A better exercise is choosing both the proper surgeon and the proper implants. These choices WILL largely determine your shot term discomfort and your long term happiness with your surgery.Good LuckPeter Aldea, MDMemphis, TN

Hi,

Thanks for posting your question. I am happy to try and help you.

The best advice that I can give you is that you should speak to your plastic
surgeon. Online consultants are not the appropriate source of information for
you; your plastic surgeon should be your resource when it comes to
preoperative concerns. This is important because every surgeon has different
perspectives, the only one that should be important is the one that operated on
you ;)

Best wishes,

Dr. Michael J. Brown
Northern Virginia Breast Augmentation

Hi and thanks for your question. It´s really not necessary to do that, the outcome after under muscle implants is different in each person, I routinely prescibe musce relaxing medication and when necessary double pain killers and it works very well. One of the most important points in the post op is not to lift your arms son the pectoralis mayor muscle doesn´t work so much.Regards.Dr. Milla

Breast augmentations are relatively painful regardless of what you do before the procedure.  You surgeon will do his best to use a gentle technique but you likely will need some pain meds and rest after the surgery.  Within a few days things will settle and you will be out and about doing better.   

I know of no evidence that stretching the pectoral muscles will decrease the tightness that can occur when an implant is inserted under those muscles. The one factor that can increase the amount of pain is the size of the implants chosen.All the best. 

There is not a way for you to prep your muscle prior to sub muscular augmentation. The muscle will be stretched by the implant. Follow your surgeon's post op instructions for pain control and activity restriction.