Hip Dips After Tummy Tuck

The hip dips are a common side effect of a tummy tuck, and they can be quite painful. The hip dips occur when the skin over your hipbones is stretched so thin that it causes a depression in the skin and fat layer. Fortunately, there are non-surgical ways to treat hip dips. Many different types of creams are available to help heal your hip dips without the need for surgery.

If you continue to have problems with your hip dips after trying these creams, then it might be time for you to consider seeking out additional treatment options like LipoDissolve or fat grafting procedures where doctors can use liposuction techniques in order to remove excess fat from other areas of your body before injecting it into the area where you have been experiencing pain due to your hip dips

Read on to learn more about hip dips after tummy tuck: hip dips after tummy tuck: Causes and Solutions

Hip Dips After Tummy Tuck

Hip dips are a common complication after a tummy tuck. An underdeveloped lower abdominal muscle, which supports your belly button, usually causes the hip dips.

If you have had a tummy tuck and you notice hip dips, please see your plastic surgeon for evaluation and treatment options.

Hip dips are a common complication after a tummy tuck. An underdeveloped lower abdominal muscle, which supports your belly button, typically causes the hip dips. In fact, if you look at an anatomy book, this muscle is called your rectus abdominis, but we call it your lower abdominal muscle because it also helps support your lower back and pelvis.

When this muscle is underdeveloped or weak, it cannot hold up the extra skin and fat in the lower abdomen after weight loss surgery (or even with weight gain). As a result, the skin folds over itself, creating these deep creases or pockets of fat known as hip dips.

Hip dips after a tummy tuck are a common complaint that may be due to the amount of excess skin removed or the type of surgery performed.

Hip Dips After Tummy Tuck

The hip dips are caused by

• Skin and tissue being removed from the lower abdomen and hips (abdominoplasty)
• Excessive swelling after surgery
• Excessive weight gain

Hip dips are a common problem after tummy tuck surgery. They are most often present because the muscles of your abdomen have weakened and stretched out. Stretched skin may not be able to contract back down completely. This scenario can lead to a bulge or dip in the area of your hip where it meets your lower abdomen.

Hip Dips After Tummy Tuck: Causes and Solutions

The most common cause for hip dips after a tummy tuck is weakening of the abdominal muscles due to pregnancy or c-section delivery. A pregnancy will weaken your abdominal muscles, which can lead to sagging skin and loose abdominal wall muscle tone. A c-section delivery will weaken these muscles even more, since there is no support from pushing during labor and delivery. Other causes include excess weight gain, pregnancy weight gain, and genetics (in some cases).

There are several ways to resolve this problem:

Liposuction – the procedure can be done through an incision made under the breast where minimal scarring occurs or through liposuction alone with no incisions needed at all (VASER).

Hip dips are a common problem following a tummy tuck. This is because the tightness of the skin can create some of the same issues as an umbilical hernia.

In an umbilical hernia, the strength of the abdominal muscles is not enough to support the lower part of your tummy. At this point, this causes a bulge in the abdominal wall. If you perform a tummy tuck incorrectly or if you are overweight, the same outcome may occur. But a tummy tuck makes it harder to see since there’s a dip in the skin instead of a bulge.

Conclusion

Hip dips after a tummy tuck are very common. It is not uncommon for patients to feel that their hips are worse than their stomach after surgery.

After surgery, swelling and bruising will occur for about a week. The swelling usually goes down after about one week, but bruising may last longer—especially if you had liposuction or other procedures done during your tummy tuck operation (in which case it could take up to three weeks for swelling and bruising to go away).

The most important thing you can do is follow all instructions from your surgeon and avoid any activity that involves sitting or lying on your stomach for at least 6 weeks after surgery. The only exception is walking exercises, which should be started as soon as possible after surgery.

If you have any concerns about your results, please contact your plastic surgeon for an evaluation at the first sign of problems