Three weeks ago, I had tickle lipo on my outer thighs, flanks, abdomen, and hips. I have developed painful bands of fibrosis in the tissue of my back and abdomen. My surgeon has suggested that I have Endymed treatments to treat the fibrosis. Is this an appropriate treatment option for fibrosis? What are the best treatment options for fibrosis?
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First of all, there is no reason to have experienced a Tickle Lipo procedure and feel a lot of pain.
In the right hands, with local anesthesia lipo procedures, Tickle is by far, the most comfortable way to achieve complete anesthesia of the area(s) to be treated. The way the...
Still very early post op and yes wait til 3 months out than if seeing these fat residual lumps you can seek laserlipo revision. Tickle Lipo is NOT what it was advertised to be in my opinion. seeing poorly done cases from this treatment option vs laserlipo or traditional lipo...
Since you are only doing your flanks, this is a relatively small area and degree of trauma you experience will be small as compared to say doing your whole abdomen plus flanks and back.
With that said, to compare each, the Smartlipo procedure is the most well known and by that fact alone...