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Pole after Mastectomy Surgery
Hi fellow polers!
I’m in the process of recovering from a double mastectomy surgery and have my final surgery for my permanent implants coming up in mid July. Basically I’ve had my pectoral muscles expanded to form my new breast, which involves extensive damage and stretching to my pec muscles.
I’m wondering if there are any polers out there who have gone through a similar mastectomy surgery and returned to pole afterwards. I was wondering what their recovery was like and their journey back to pole?
Prior to my surgery, I was an intermediate 3 student who could comfortably invert/straddle aerially and was starting to learn shoulder mount etc.
Strength wise, I’m now basically a beginner and can’t mount the pole due to the damage done to my pec muscles.
I’m hoping that I’ll be able to return to my previous strength over an extended period of time, but I don’t know anyone who has been through my surgery so there is a lot of unknown in terms of whether I will ever be able to return to normal pole activities.
Would love to hear from polers with shared experiences 🙂
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No experience to share but just wanted to applaud you for dancing back after what must have been a horrible scary painful time 🙂 well bloody done
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I’ve heard of students showing their doctors pictures of what they do exercise wise and suggesting three months or more off. Because the pecs are going through so much it might be much longer. Do you have any pictures of yourself doing beginner and advanced moves to show your doctor this is my exercise, how long until I can start retraining. I know when I was pregnant my obgyn said pole was okay as long as I knew when to stop and not to do it while dizzy, my General practitioner thought I was crazy before pregnancy and saw the dangers over the interest of the hobby.
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