BodyFX®

Results are seen after the first treatment for fat and cellulite while skin tightening effects take more time and reach peak improvement at 6-12 months. Gradual improvements in the treatment area can be seen following the first few treatments with the skins surface feeling smoother and softer immediately.

Yes, but you may need to do more treatments depending upon the needs of your particular body and the skin tightening needed to keep up with the weight loss.  BodyFX® won’t cause weight loss but can be useful as you achieve some improved shaping and contouring during the weight loss.  Extreme amounts of weight loss may require skin excision or other surgery for larger amounts of tightening.

Yes.  You should and you can.  You skin needs to be completely clean and dry before treatments.   You should always use sunblock to exposed areas of your skin to help it remain healthy, age better, and minimize skin cancer risks anyway.  Otherwise, following treatments you can use moisturizer and other skincare as you wish.  One of our most popular products is Alastin Transform Body. This is an amazing product that you can think of as “contour in a bottle.”  It is very useful for patient’s losing weight or in maintenance mode as it reduces skin crepiness, enhances collage production needed for tightening, provides hydration, and firming (tone) to areas of concern.

Body FX uses a combination of different clinically proven modalities including radiofrequency energy, deep tissue heating and suction coupled negative pressure (vacuum). The radio-frequency energy distributes heat into the targeted tissue and underlying fat causing the tissues to heat and contract. Once the target tissue reaches temperature, a second energy pulse is delivered responsible for killing the fat cell. The treatment area is a 6 x 6 inches with application of 10 minutes of continuous energy consistently maintaining a certain temperature that will destroy fat cell. The heating effect stimulates collagen which helps to tighten skin while the secondary pulse improves cellulite appearance and targets localized fat deposits. The vacuum and controlled energy pulses work synergistically to provide beautiful body contouring results and a percent of fat reduction with each treatment.

A series of RF energy is delivered be a succession of pulses at 1 million cycles per second. While this may sound intense, it is very safe. To maximize comfort, the body’s temperature is constantly monitored, with ongoing accurate feedback of the skin’s temperature, this thermal monitoring provides the utmost in temperature control.  Burns are very rare, and none of our patients treated at Springs Aesthetics have had any serious burns or other issues.  A few hours of redness and warmth is typical.

Most users find the BodyFX comfortable. During treatment you can expect a warming of your skin, and gentle pulling/stretching sensation as the radio frequency and vacuum work to smooth out unwanted stubborn pockets of fat.  A key to comfort is to maintain the needed temperature across the treatment area and to keep the handpiece in good contact with the skin while minimizing time between movement of the handpiece to adjacent areas within the same treatment zone.  Rarely, patients can opt to utilize Pro-Nox, laughing gas, which makes the treatments more tolerable should discomfort arise.  The nitrous gas wears off within 10 minutes after discontinued, so you can then drive yourself safely home any time after that.

For best results, BodyFX® treatments should be undertaken weekly over an eight-week period. There is no downtime for BodyFX®. During treatment, you may expect a warming of the skin that is the equivalent to the sensation of a deep tissue massage and when done quickly and properly is very tolerable, and laughing gas can be used with your treatments if you choose to make it an easier experience.  You may notice some slight redness/warmth in the treated area post treatment for a few hours, but there is otherwise no downtime.  Very rarely, bruising can occur and will clear on its own or be sped up if it becomes dark with our IPL (intense pulse light) bruise treatments, which is included if needed with your package cost.  Since 2015, Springs Aesthetics has been using BodyFX® with no complications and a high success rate. Additional information and before and afters can be found by clicking here.