LD reconstruction: what the PS will not tell you

leftduetostupidmods

There have been many discussions about the impact a LD breast reconstruction has on quality of life, with members of this forum who had it coming from both sides of the spectrum: ladies who had minimal discomfort and ladies who found themselves almost disabled. One of my personal observations was that the more athletic a woman is, the higher the chances that she will have issues functioning normally after this type of breast reconstruction,

But I digress. What I wanted to say was that usually plastic surgeons will not tell you all there is to it. They will pretty much present everything in a fairly pink light (pun intended) and you discover afterwards what it really means, when it's too late to fix it.

I found a very interesting summary of a study that has actually nothing to do with breast reconstruction - but is about damage to the thoracodorsal nerve and implicitly latissimus dorsi muscle. I think that if I'd write a treaty of a million words, it wouldn't be more efficient than what this study's conclusions show.

Injury of the thoracodorsal nerve