We recommend that you massage your breasts, beginning about one week after your surgery. This implant displacement massage is to keep the soft tissue “pocket” around the implant open, soft and supple. It is hoped that with massage the pocket and developing soft tissue capsule around the breast implant will stay a little bigger than the implants, allowing the implant to move freely and naturally with your breast. Also, we like for the pocket to stay open, especially early on while the muscle and skin are still relaxing and the implants are “settling”. Finally, it is hoped that massage will limit your risk of the soft tissue capsule from shrinking and squeezing on the implant. Such shrinking of the capsule is termed: capsular contracture. Implant massage is the only thing that may help prevent capsular contracture, so we definitely recommend it.
