Breast Reduction to Pursue a Career in Sports

Introduction

The modern standards of beauty depict a woman with large breasts and curves in all the right places, and this is one of the reasons why so many women are resorting to plastic surgery to enhance the appearance of their breasts. However, there is also an important category of women who naturally have overly large breasts that prevent them from performing otherwise simple activities and even engage in sports.

For women with small breasts and men, they might find it difficult to understand how something as simple as running or jumping can be seen as a task almost impossible to perform without a considerable level of discomfort and even pain, but this is the reality of women with breasts that are too big for their anatomy. The weight of the breasts could be a few kilograms for these patients. Just imagine a bag of a few kilograms hanging from your neck up to your chest, because sometimes this is how things feel like for women with overly large breasts.

Breast reduction is performed to provide relief from constant back, neck and shoulder pain and increase the patient’s mobility. Breast reduction is a major plastic surgery procedure with long-term consequences that can be performed on women of all ages.

The procedure is often preferred by teenagers who have witnessed an over development of the mammary gland during adolescence years; patients who were obese or severely overweight and had a massive weight loss; women who had multiple pregnancies; and women who want to pursue a career in sports.

In this article, we will discuss the discomforts associated with overly large breasts and why many women choose to have breast reduction to be able to pursue a career in sports.

Discomforts associated with having overly large breasts

Have you ever seen a woman with overly large breasts jogging? Not very often, right? This happens because women with breasts that are way too big for their anatomy will try a few times to keep in shape like other people and soon discover that most physical activities are difficult to perform or cause real discomfort or pain. Having the breasts jump up and down for the whole duration of the jog is not very pleasant and can also be very tiresome. Huge breasts are also associated with difficulties in breathing, and this makes performing sports even more difficult.

Women with excessively large breasts usually have troubles sleeping on their tummy, are confronted with back, neck and shoulder pain, and experience muscular contracture and other health conditions, which can affect the life and well-being of the patient.

Even body posture can become abnormal in time due to the pressure exercised by the volume of the breasts on the spine. The deformation of the spine is more common than you think for women who have gone through overdevelopment of the breasts at an early age.

Dermatological conditions on the inframammary fold are also present in a vast majority of cases. Moreover, these skin conditions are difficult to address and treat because of the constant perspiration that occurs on the inframammary fold due to the lack of oxygenation and air flow.

Women with big breasts can also have more trouble finding clothes and lingerie that will offer their breasts enough support while looking pretty at the same time. It is a well-known fact that big bra cup sizes mostly focus on support and lacks in aesthetics. The straps are very wide, and usually the bra cup covers the whole breast to give it support.

Breast reduction surgery is a good option for women with overly large breasts, especially if they want to pursue a career in sports.

Breast reduction and a career in sports

The world’s number 1 tennis player is Simona Halep, a Romanian tennis player who had plastic surgery to reduce the size of her breasts in 2009. Over the years, the tennis player admitted that overly large breasts were an extra burden for her and an obstacle preventing her from reacting in time. She also made public the fact that she believes that reducing the size of her breasts was an important step in getting better results and improving her game, and if we look at her evolution before and after breast reduction surgery, it seems obvious the improvement has occurred after plastic surgery.

For a woman who wants to pursue or start a career in sports, the benefits of having breast reduction are undeniable. We are talking about less pressure on the spine, more freedom to move, jump, run, a better reaction time and no more little things that make life complicated when having excessively large breasts.

But when considering breast reduction to pursue a career in sports, it is also important to understand the long-term consequences of undergoing the procedure. Considering her public declarations, the Romanian tennis player knew exactly what the risks and potential complications were and weighed in the pros and cons before undergoing the procedure. She made a decision based on how the expected results will help improve her game and her career in sports.

Since the procedure can be performed on very young patients (as young as 16 years old and even younger in severe cases), the recommendation is to take enough time to consider the consequences and to make sure you are undergoing the procedure because this is what you want to do and not to please your parents or other people. Breast reduction can affect the woman’s ability to breastfeed, and if this is important for you, you will need to evaluate whether having the procedure to pursue a career in sports is more important for you than the possibility of breastfeeding your children.

The procedure is a complex one and will also leave behind permanent scars, and this is another turn off for some patients. Make sure to know exactly how your scars will look like after the surgery and where they will be placed before scheduling your procedure.

When is breast reduction recommended?

Just like any other plastic surgery procedure, breast reduction surgery is a highly customized and personalized procedure and should never be performed to please another person or to copy the physical image of another person. During the pre-operative consultation with the plastic surgeon, the patient will go through a medical examination and will also be invited to talk about her reasons to undergo the procedure, the goals she hopes to achieve, their medical history, and potential allergies and medication. In many cases and even for patients who want to pursue a career in sports, the procedure has a medical indication. This means that the plastic surgeon recommends the procedure to alleviate a certain condition or improve the health of the patient. While most other plastic surgery procedures are performed for reconstructive or aesthetic purposes only, breast reduction has a functional role as well. The aim of patients undergoing the surgery to pursue a career in sports is to get increased mobility, aside from getting rid of the discomforts associated with overly large breasts.

The ideal candidate for breast reduction surgery is a healthy woman with a good emotional condition and normal weight. Patients active in the sports world who want to undergo this procedure also need to understand that there will be a downtime after the procedure and that all physical exercises are to be resumed at the soonest a month or two after the procedure and only with the consent of the plastic surgeon. This is important to understand because a month without working out can be a lot for women who are used to doing sports for a living. Discuss this in detail with the plastic surgeon during the initial consultation.

Conclusion

Breast reduction surgery is the opposite of one of the most commonly performed procedures in the world nowadays, which is breast augmentation. The procedure is performed to help women get increased mobility, aside from a more harmonious body shape and relief from the discomforts associated with having overly large breasts.

A famous Romanian tennis player who is currently number 1 in the world has had breast reduction surgery in 2009 and declares that it helped her tremendously in her sports career. Breast reduction surgery is suitable for women who want to pursue a career in sports if the volume of the breasts prevents them from improving their game.

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