Robert Whitfield MD explains that breast implants typically don't prevent breastfeeding since most U.S. implants since 1996 go behind the pectoral muscle, leaving breast tissue undisturbed. Muscle function can weaken temporarily after surgery, similar to a torn bicep, but active people usually regain strength within about a year with proper rehabilitation.
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Behind the muscle (submuscular).
About a year (illustrative recovery window for active individuals).
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This is possibly a dumb question, but just thinking about, like, the mammary glands and this whole idea of implants. Explants. Does any of this play into a woman's capability to breastfeed? No, no. They can still breastfeed. It's. It's say when I'm taking them out. Most implants in the United states placed since 1996 are behind the muscle. Okay. So they're really. You're not dealing with the breast so much. Right. So then it becomes how. How affected is the muscle? And many people promote muscle repair. And I think you're an athlete, so if you tore a muscle and it was unrepaired, like a bicep, what would happen? Atrophy. Yeah. Just curls up. Yeah. So a muscle to function for the audience needs to be connected. Origin insertion. And so when you release part of its insertion, it changes. Rumble. Right. And muscles just don't get. You're doing like a full bicep tear where you literally see it curl up. Yeah. That's in front of you. Yeah. You can't just pull down. Yeah, yeah. You just can't pull muscles down. So it's. It's like a broken window shade. It's there and it'll be fine over time as it heals and restores. What we call a resting lane. Because people I've had say, for instance, somebody's in a military environment and they have implants because that happens, and they need to get them removed for one reason or another, and they pass their physical training test, then they come see me, they want to have an explant, then they have a whole year to recover, basically. And in particular, they'll get almost right back to their bench and their pull up and push up and whatever testing parameters there are. And so it's possible, it's totally within the realm to get almost back to the same physical type mission. It's just the pace at which you do it. We try to govern that so you don't potentially tear your pack because it's going to be weaker after surgery. Yeah, yeah. Do you.
