As we age, our faces aren’t the only places to experience changes. The upper arms can also begin to sag, resulting in what many refer to as “bat wings.” Saggy arms can make you look older than you feel and keep you from confidently flaunting your favorite sleeveless clothing. This blog discusses ways to get rid of saggy arms and when a surgical arm lift becomes your best option.
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Causes of Saggy Arms
Saggy arms may be attributed to a variety of factors, including:
- Aging: The aging process reduces skin elasticity, resulting in loose, sagging skin on the upper arms.
- Massive weight loss: Losing a significant amount of weight can result in loose, sagging skin if it doesn’t conform to your leaner contours.
- Sedentary lifestyle: A lack of exercise can cause arms to lose firmness and tone, while isolated fat deposits can form and exacerbate a saggy appearance.
- Genetics: Some people are born with a genetic predisposition to loose skin or fat storage, making it more likely that their arms will begin to sag over time.
Can Exercise Reduce Sagging Under the Arms?
Exercise, particularly strength training, can reduce the appearance of saggy arms for some people. You can use dumbbells, resistance bands, or your body’s own weight to build muscle and sculpt your upper arms.
While exercise offers many benefits, it won’t address the loss of skin elasticity, which often contributes most to arm sagging. Lingering loose skin over your muscles will hide your positive weight-training results. If you lose weight with your workouts, the loose, hanging skin underneath your arms can become more noticeable.
Surgical Options for Reducing Arm Sagging
When loose skin is the primary culprit in your sagging upper arms, surgery may be the only effective solution. The type of procedure that will work best depends on whether excess skin is the only problem, or if isolated fat deposits are also a concern.
Arm Lift
An arm lift or brachioplasty is a surgical procedure that eliminates sagging skin and stubborn fat from the upper arm. By tightening the skin, arm muscle definition becomes more visible, creating a more toned look overall. The procedure offers dramatic, long-lasting results. Dr. Aly also employs advanced techniques to produce superior arm lift results for his patients. He invented and developed a brachioplasty technique that is utilized by thousands of plastic surgeons from around the world.
Liposuction
Liposuction is used to remove stubborn fat from nearly any part of the body, including the upper arms. This procedure uses tiny incisions and a thin cannula to gently suction fat from the treatment area. The procedure is performed under general anesthesia in most cases, and recovery is relatively quick and comfortable compared with other plastic surgery procedures.
Dr. Aly may perform either procedure alone or recommend a combination of the two for patients with a combination of fat deposits and skin laxity. Liposuction can be performed at the same time as an arm lift to achieve optimal results in a single surgery.
Arm Lift Surgery With Dr. Aly
Dr. Aly’s proprietary Aly-posterior scar brachioplasty technique creates an incision from the armpit to the elbow, allowing him to address loose skin and fat all the way to the chest wall, where fat and excess skin often accumulate. He places the incision near the back of the arm, where it will be less visible when a person is facing people and moving their arms.
Dr. Aly also uses suturing techniques that eliminate the need for surgical drains during recovery. Eliminating drains lowers a patient’s risk of complications and infections and creates a more comfortable recovery process overall. He has also developed a postoperative protocol that eliminates the need for narcotic pain medications. By replacing these drugs with other pain-management strategies, he does away with the side effects and potential side effects associated with prescription narcotic medications.
Learn More About an Arm Lift in Dallas, TX
An arm lift is often the only effective way to remove loose skin on the upper arm and create a more youthful appearance. To find out if an arm lift in Dallas is the right choice for you, contact our office at (214) 645-2313 or fill out our online contact form to schedule your consultation.