Skin Tightening - Ask a Surgeon

At this point in time, there is not much to be done but to wait for further healing. Bruised and traumatized nerves can sometimes take 3-4 months to recover, and possibly longer. Please follow up with your surgeon as scheduled.

Wearing a corset can't help you lose weight, but if it makes the exercise process more tolerable, it may be a great idea! Particularly for tummy tuck patients, they find that prior to their tummy tucks, they often need corsets or Spanx to retain their abdominal layer. After their tummy tucks, of course, this is no longer required.

I don't know whether such garments would help much during weight loss. As you mentioned, they are used after liposuction, but not primarily for cause skin tightening. Their main use is to reduce swelling within tissues during the early recovery, and passively support the skin until the swelling goes away. Best wishes for your success with weight loss.

Compression garments can be very helpful following tummy tuck (abdominoplasty) or liposuction surgery. There is no weight loss benefit to wearing a compression garment. Patients must be carefully measured for a custom-fit garment preoperatively, and garment fit must be carefully monitored postoperatively. If a one-size larger or smaller garment is needed, we discontinue the current garment and have a new one sent by overnight delivery to the patient’s home.