Robert Whitfield MD explains recovery after a Zoom lift: wear a head wrap for two days and a soft collar for 7-10 days. Avoid extreme head tilting and heavy lifting for the first week, but light activity like walking is fine.
Two days.
Seven to ten days.
About the first week.
Walking and riding a stationary bike.
Actually very easy Zoom lift. We put you in the soft cervical collar. It looks like a little whiplash collar and a little head wrap. You wear the head wrap for two days and then the collar for the next seven to 10 days. And the only limitation on activity is tilting your head down or up too much because that puts too much stress on the suture suspension. Heavy lifting or exercise that causes relatively high increases in heart rate and blood pressure to be avoided, just to decrease bleeding, like any treatment. And that would just be for the first week. Walking's fine. Riding a stationary bike's fine. All those things are okay.
