The success of plastic surgery depends on multiple factors. We are accustomed to placing the surgeon's skill and experience first. However, it is precisely the surgeon's experience that demonstrates that even the most brilliantly performed operation's results may prove short-lived due to neglect of rehabilitation treatment recommendations.

Rehabilitation is necessary after any surgical intervention. Swelling, hemorrhages, soreness, unpleasant sensations, and sometimes loss of sensitivity are inevitable attributes of more or less complex plastic surgery. However, one should remember that any of these consequences can be reduced.

If you have decided on plastic surgery, you must understand that you have taken only the first step toward perfection. One should not think that a well-performed operation will eliminate the need for visiting cosmetologists for long. On the contrary, preserving the achieved result for many years will require even more careful attention to your appearance. A long rehabilitation period lies ahead. Thanks to a course of special restorative procedures, relief from swelling and bruising, improved well-being, and consolidation of obtained results can be achieved much faster.

During any operation, the intervention area and the entire body undergo stress. Due to the intersection of numerous vessels, blood supply in the operation zone changes substantially. And although new capillaries open to replace the severed ones, their permeability increases, swelling appears, and inflammation develops. Blood released from damaged capillaries and small vessels saturates the tissues. Due to hemoglobin breakdown, the skin at the trauma site changes color and bruises appear. Adequate innervation of damaged tissues suffers, and metabolic process intensity decreases. Skin repeatedly treated with antiseptic preparations becomes overdried. This is only a small fraction of the complex processes occurring in tissues in response to damage.

Rehabilitation after plastic surgery typically includes a set of measures aimed at reducing swelling, eliminating hemorrhages, increasing muscle tone, and improving skin quality. Rehabilitation programs should be directed at healing the entire body—its detoxification, improving microcirculation, increasing metabolic process intensity, and skin moisturizing and lifting. On the other hand, they should be aimed at restoring skin in the operation zone. When compiling a rehabilitation plan, many factors are considered: the patient's health status and age, presence of chronic diseases, harmful habits, and other individual characteristics.

Timing

All procedures are prescribed by a physician with experience in this field—based on postoperative examination results, from the first day after surgery. The physician takes into account the patient's individual characteristics: age, general diseases, vascular and skin condition, smoking history, etc., as well as operation performance nuances and surgeon's recommendations.

Procedure Frequency

According to physician recommendation: daily or every other day.

Rehabilitation procedures allow:

• Reduction of soreness at the operation site

• Restoration of skin sensitivity and tissue blood supply

• Reduction of swelling and postoperative induration

• Creation of conditions for aesthetic, thin scar formation

• Reduction of recovery time after surgery and faster return to normal lifestyle

What happens without them?

Without an individualized rehabilitation procedure course, complete restoration of damaged tissues may take up to six months. Blood supply in the problem area remains impaired for an extended time. This can become a serious risk for coarse scar formation.

To avoid infections and inflammation, incision sites are carefully treated with antiseptics, which dry the skin. Properly selected cosmetological techniques allow elimination of this dryness and other unpleasant consequences.

Painful sensations are relieved after the first rehabilitation program procedure.

If nothing is undertaken, pain may persist for several weeks.

An individually selected course will eliminate and prevent other possible complications.