A tummy tuck is a surgical treatment that can firm your abdominal muscles. Believe it or not, it also provides certain health benefits. After the surgery eliminates extra abdominal skin and fat, it restores weakened stomach muscles. You will observe that your overall health has improved. A tummy tuck surgery is a transformative process. The added benefits of this surgery go beyond just toning up the midsection. Besides the firm abdominal muscles, tummy tuck patients enjoy other added advantages.
Some of the surprising health advantages of a tummy tuck are:
1. Strengthens Your Core
A tummy tuck procedure help strengthen your core- including the muscles in and around your abdomen. A strong core supports your spine and provides some noticeable advantages like:
It provides improved posture – Stand straight, breathe deeper, and release pressure on your hips and knees.
It provides better balance and stability – Move in any direction or stand in place and keep your balance.
It provides back pain relief – Sit, stand, bend, lift, and do everyday work or home tasks with less stiffness and soreness in your back.
Become more active – Take part in healthy physical activities that require flexibility and core power.
2. Minimizes Urinary Incontinence
Stress urinary incontinence (SUI) is a bladder-control problem that causes involuntary urine leakage while coughing, sneezing, laughing, or even doing something less forceful.
Lift tissue from the pelvic area
Suspend the urethra
Slightly creates a barrier in your bladder to decrease urine leakage
3. Corrects Ventral Hernia
A ventral hernia is a visible bulge beneath your skin in your abdominal area. Developing a ventral hernia is risky if your muscles are weak from Cesarean delivery (C-section) or excessive weight loss. Hernias can develop when intestinal or abdominal tissue pierces the weakened abdominal wall. There are several cases where even without a hernia, there is a partition between the abdominal muscles, which results in a bump of the abdomen. This bump can be corrected through the tummy tuck treatment, providing you with a flatter tummy.
Along with hernia correction surgery, a tummy tuck is helpful in various other ways:
Build up weak abdominal muscles
Releases skin pressure from the hernia
Avoids reoccurring ventral hernias
You will be free to bend, stretch, or wear a belt again without feeling any severe pain or discomfort due to ventral hernia.
4. Resolves the Complications of Excess Skin
A tummy tuck surgery eliminates loose, excess skin that can cause hindrance to your mobility and ability to perform physical activities like exercise- specifically after significant weight loss. Exercise is really important for the body to maintain your body posture after surgery.
5. Mobility and Exercise
You may put a lot of effort into tightening it with exercise. Extra skin can linger after you give birth or lose weight. A tummy tuck surgery can improve your mobility in several ways:
Reduces the physical discomfort of hanging skin
Increase the number of exercises you can do
Make it easier to live an active life
6. Healthier Skin
Loose skin may become irritated or infected. A tummy tuck is healthy for your abdominal skin in various ways, including:
Eliminates hard-to-clean folds of skin
Reduces chafing and rashes
Avoids infections
Consult with Dr. DeLozier
Tummy tuck surgery provides many wonderful advantages—many of them beyond the usual, expected perks. Need we say more? You’ll be able to look in the mirror and feel confident about your new look. If you are willing to know if you are a suitable candidate for a tummy tuck surgery in Nashville and its advantages, request a consultation with Dr. DeLozier.
