Why read the Facelift Recovery Handbook?
Kathleen Helen Lisson has been helping clients recover from their facial plastic surgery for over a decade. Board Certified Plastic Surgeons refer their patients to her to reduce the heavy, tight feeling that facelift swelling can bring. Even if you’re not Kathleen’s client, you can still plan your recovery with the advice in this book.
We will cover:
Why do people get a facelift?
Facelift Recovery Tips (including a supply list)
The Emotional Rollercoaster of Facelift Recovery
Reducing Swelling After Surgery
Breathwork
Manual Lymphatic Drainage (MLD) massage
Stress Reduction
Vibration
Maintaining your results with self-massage
Ten things to know about longevity
In the Facelift Recovery Handbook, Kathleen shares the real emotions and difficulties that are part of facelift recovery as well as helpful hints she has learned both from her facelift clients and from recovering from her own facelift surgery.
Facelift Recovery Supply List
Preparation is key to a smooth recovery. Find these items on Amazon here: https://a.co/d/0diaIplI
- Baby shampoo
- Baby or child’s toothbrush
- Button up tops or blouses with a wide neck opening
- Cool-mist humidifier or essential oil diffuser
- Cold packs (non-ice packs)
- Eye drops
- Eye massage roller tool
- Facial massage silicone cups
- Hair dye root touchup powder
- Incentive spirometer
- Jaw massage roller tool
- Mouth tape / sleep strips
- Powdered dietary fiber
- Quartz face massage roller
- Scar tape or cream
- Silk eye mask for sleep
- Sonic/electric toothbrush
- Tape for bruising
- Vibrating face massager
- Wedge Pillow (only if surgeon recommended)
- Wide toothed comb
- Xylitol candy/ oral rinse / gum (only if surgeon recommended)
Facelift Recovery
The Week Before Facelift
You're anxious and having second thoughts. It's normal. One source of anxiety is fear of getting a blood clot. Calculate Caprini Risk Score at https://capriniriskscore.org/ and share with your surgeon.
First Week after Facelift
Everything is painful, everything is swollen. Physical and emotional stress hits you like a ton of bricks. You're not the only one who feels this way. Read about what REALLY happens (and is totally normal) after facelift in the Facelift Recovery Handbook
Second Week after Facelift
Everything is still swollen and you fear you are falling behind because the Internet says you should be well enough to go back to work. I share strategies for reducing swelling in the Facelift Recovery Handbook.
Self-Massage After Facelift
These videos show my step by step self-massage protocols after facelift plastic surgery.