If you’re reading up on medical aesthetics, you may come across “body contouring” and wonder: What is this, what does it do, or where can I get this treatment?
At Harbour Direct Primary Care, we offer well-rounded treatment options that can improve our patients’ health, wellness, and aesthetics. We focus on educating our staff, so they can provide top-notch care no matter what you are visiting us for. One treatment that we tend to recommend to patients is body contouring in Jamestown, RI, which can tone and tighten muscles, giving them the confidence to take on the day.
First Thing’s First
What is body contouring? Body contouring is a treatment that helps re-shape your figure by tightening skin, toning muscles, or melting pockets of stubborn fat. There are three types of methods when it comes to body contouring treatments:
1) Invasive
Invasive treatments typically include surgical procedures, like liposuction or a breast lift. These procedures require incisions and anesthesia, and typically take 6 to 12 months to see full results. It also requires more downtime to recover, so most patients prefer other methods of treatment. However, if your aesthetics concerns are more demanding, then invasive procedures may be your best (and only) option to see the results you are looking for.
2) Minimally invasive
Minimally invasive treatments typically include Botox, microneedling, and other options that puncture the epidermis. These kinds of treatments are slightly invasive, but otherwise tolerable, and require much less downtime. Only some treatments will require the use of topical numbing, but no anesthesia.
3) Noninvasive
Noninvasive treatments do not use any invasive methods. Most of the time, noninvasive treatments use heat, generally from radiofrequency, to stimulate collagen and elastin production, remove fat cells, and more. These treatments typically do not involve numbing or downtime, and they are most preferred by patients. If you receive noninvasive treatments regularly, then you can avoid minimally invasive or invasive procedures in the future.
Why do people get body contouring?
We understand, as a primary care clinic, that most aesthetics treatments don’t provide the kinds of health benefits that our wellness services do. However, there are several reasons why patients receive consistently scheduled treatments for body contouring in Jamestown, RI.
Confidence
For many people, getting aesthetics treatments is about getting their confidence back. Your body can begin to look different than it used to, whether it’s from the natural aging process, hormone changes, or changes from pregnancy. These changes can cause stress and loss of confidence. To help you out, we offer a wide variety of minimally invasive and noninvasive options so you can feel like you once again.
The idea of undergoing surgery to accomplish your body contouring goals can be a bit daunting. What our aesthetics services provide is an alternative that requires less downtime and more comfort while delivering dramatic enhancements to their natural beauty.
Post-Weight Loss
At Harbour Direct, we offer weight loss treatments like semaglutide and weight loss coaching. While these options are only available to our primary care patients, they address overall body weight, but they may not have the same effect as body contouring. Even though it helps you in accomplishing your goal weight, it can still result in leftover pockets of fat, or sagging skin.
Our minimally and noninvasive treatments for body contouring in Jamestown help to stimulate collagen and elastin as well as reduce specific areas of fat. As a result, you can increase your skin elasticity and shrink the sagging skin that came from your weight loss treatment. Then with heat, your fat cells are broken down permanently to smooth areas of stubborn fat and create the ideal contours for your body.
Functionality
Another reason patients may undergo our treatments for body contouring in Jamestown, RI, is because they want to improve the functionality of their muscles and joints. Certain body contouring treatments use high-intensity focused electromagnetic (HIFEM) energy to stimulate muscle contractions. This provides your muscles with a better workout than you could ever accomplish in a gym, helping build muscle mass, increase strength, and improve the functionality of your body.
For these types of treatments, we commonly see clients who are looking to improve mobility in their joints or increase overall strength, especially abdominal strength. We also see plenty of older patients who are looking to maintain movement as they age and prevent the deterioration of their muscles and joints.
Our Body Contouring Treatments
Our team understands that how you accomplish your goals is just as important as achieving them. That is why we offer a variety of high-quality, scientifically proven treatments for body contouring in Jamestown, RI. Our expert physicians take the time to learn about your specific needs and customize a treatment plan with the services that best work for you.
Microneedling
Microneedling is a minimally invasive treatment that uses small needles to create miro-channels in your epidermis, the uppermost layer of your skin. Microneedling is ideal for those with mild-to-moderate skin sagging and can take multiple treatments over time to see ideal improvements. This treatment is designed to stimulate your body’s natural healing response, increasing collagen and elastin production. This can improve your skin quality, texture, and elasticity to create smoother, more flexible skin.
Clear RF
This is another minimally invasive treatment that applies heat from radiofrequency energy using small pins to gently ablate (shed) the uppermost layer of your epidermis. The shedding of dead and damaged skin cells helps to remove concerns like texture, wrinkles, and hyperpigmentation. Then, the heat generated from RF energy increases your body’s natural production of collagen and elastin. This can allow your body to create newer and healthier skin cells. Clear RF addresses mild-to-moderate concerns and creates smoother, glowing skin.
Emface Noninvasive Facelift
The Emface noninvasive facelift applies high-intensity facial electric stimulation (HIFES) and heat in the form of RF energy to stimulate over 11,000 contractions within your facial muscles. This improves the muscle mass within your face, creating a lifting effect that helps restore volume and reverse wrinkles. At the same time, the heat from the radiofrequency increases collagen and elastin production, giving you the facelift of your dreams!
Emface Double Chin Reduction
By using the heat from radiofrequency energy, Emface double chin reduction targets the fat cells that make up your double chin. This damages the fat cells and permanently removes them from your body. However, the remaining cells can grow larger, so while it is a solution to help reduce fat in a specific area, it takes healthy habits to make the changes long-lasting.
Emsculpt NEO
Emsculpt NEO is our most popular treatment option for body contouring in Jamestown, RI. This is because it combines radiofrequency and HIFEM energy to build 25% more muscle and melt up to 30% of stubborn fat in the targeted area. While this treatment was originally designed and FDA-cleared for aesthetic purposes, it has recently been FDA-approved for more medical purposes, including preventing muscle atrophy, improving muscular function, and more. As a versatile treatment, Emsculpt NEO has had a growing influence in medical aesthetics for its belly fat removal and core strengthening capabilities.
The Body Contouring Process
The process for a lot of our treatments looks similar, so here are the steps you can expect for body contouring in Jamestown, RI.
Consultation
Your first appointment is an initial 30-minute consultation where you talk with your physician about your concerns, goals, and health history. They take the time to learn about your specific needs, and then use this information to decide which treatments work best for you. Together, you create a care plan that helps you achieve your goals, whether they are aesthetics, wellness, or both.
Treatment
Before your session begins, your physician makes sure you are prepared, ready, and comfortable. While each body contouring treatment will be a little different, your physician checks in with you throughout the treatment process to ensure you have everything you need. Once you are finished, they provide you with post-care instructions and schedule you for additional sessions if necessary.
Results
For most of our body contouring treatments, patients begin seeing improvements just a few weeks after their first session. They continue seeing gradual improvements after each appointment until they reach peak results 3 months after their final session. If you need to schedule maintenance treatments, your physician can easily get you signed up.
Why Harbour Direct?
Harbour Direct serves as both a primary care clinic and a medical aesthetics practice. Our team of experts focuses on delivering high-quality, personalized care that helps you look as good as you feel. We take the time to get to know you, your goals, your concerns, and your lifestyle, and find treatments that fit you. From the moment you walk in our doors, we want you to feel at home with a team of physicians who are welcoming and supportive.
Ready to contour your body?
Looking and feeling your best don’t have to be difficult. You can easily find the best treatments for your needs by requesting an appointment with one of our expert physicians, or using our complimentary treatment planning tool. No matter what, we can give you access to the tools, resources, and knowledge you need. Achieve your body goals and find the best treatments for body contouring in Jamestown, RI, at Harbour Direct.
