Shoulder Line

The shoulder line

What does a trapezius injection cost in Gangnam, and what does it change?

The short answer

The muscle that runs from the base of the skull out to the point of the shoulder gives the neck its slope. Botulinum toxin placed in its upper part reduces how hard it works, and the bulk it carries falls away over the following weeks, so the line from neck to shoulder reads longer and flatter. Rewind lists body work in plans of one hundred and two hundred units; value-added tax is charged on top of the published figure.

Source: the clinic's Korean rate list, where body plans appear as their own items, and its treatment page, which records an effect of three to six months.

What the injection cannot alter is the frame underneath. A shoulder line set by the angle of the collarbone, by fat, or by the way you hold yourself at a desk will look much the same after treatment. That distinction is drawn at the examination, before a plan is written. Other regions are set out on the botulinum toxin page.

Plan and timing

How is a shoulder plan dosed, and when does the line change?

This is a large muscle doing real work, so the plan is written with two questions in view: how much bulk can be lost, and how much strength must be kept.

01Source

Shrug first, then decide

You are asked to lift the shoulders and then let them go completely. A ridge that hardens on the shrug and softens afterwards is muscular. A contour that looks identical either way belongs to the skeleton or to soft tissue, and no unit count will move it.

02Plan

Two published plans, divided across the pair

The clinic lists body work at one hundred and two hundred units. Rewind's own statement is that dosing follows individual structure, so the plan is selected from the size of the muscle in front of the surgeon and then distributed between the two sides and across several points on each.

03Curve

Strength changes early, shape changes late

Shrugging feels lighter inside the first fortnight. The visible flattening of the slope arrives later, as a muscle that is no longer contracting at full force loses bulk. Studies that measured this pattern in the jaw with ultrasound recorded thinning across the months after injection, and the shoulder follows a similarly unhurried schedule.

04Limits

The evidence base for body contouring is thinner than for the face

Toxin in the body has a substantial trial record in excessive underarm sweating, and muscle-bulk reduction has been documented most thoroughly in the jaw. Slimming the shoulder line rests on the same mechanism with a smaller published literature behind it, and this page says so plainly.

Published rates

Rewind's listed figures for shoulder and calf plans

Body regions are listed by unit plan. The figure you are quoted is the plan the examination selected; treating a second region adds its own separate line.

These are published list figures; value-added tax is added at payment, and any anaesthetic fee is already included in the rate shown. Because the effect is temporary, treat the figure as a per-session cost and ask at consultation how often your own muscle is likely to need it.

Week by week

How long until the shoulder line looks different?

Expect a longer wait than facial areas produce. A large muscle loses bulk slowly, and the first thing you notice is how the shoulders feel, well before anything looks different.

Documented effects in this region include bruising and soreness at the injection points, headache, neck stiffness, a heavy or weak feeling when lifting the arms overhead, and asymmetry between the two sides. Reviews of aesthetic toxin use describe such events as usually temporary. Anyone whose work or training depends on shoulder power should weigh that possibility before booking, and should report weakness early.