Can you do too much radiofrequency?

Is radio frequency treatment safe?

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• Can you overdo it with radiofrequency treatment? Can I do radiofrequency every day?

• Having too strong (i.e. painful) radiofrequency

• Having radiofrequency treatment too often

• Having too many RF treatments

• Safe, effective, responsibly applied radiofrequency

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Can you overdo it with radiofrequency treatment? Can you do radiofrequency every day?

Too much radiofrequency treatment can refer to three things:

• Too strong treatment

• Treatment taken too often

• Too many sessions

High intensity, deep-acting radiofrequency is the strongest SAFE skin tightening and cellulite removal treatment available today, and aims to naturally stimulate collagen synthesis, collagen contraction, lipolysis and circulation with intensive - but never excessive - deep heat.

With such radiofrequency all you will feel during treatment is deep heat in your hypodermis and dermis, i.e. the deeper skin layers.

Having too strong (i.e. painful) radiofrequency

Strong, deep radiofrequency should be just below the pain threshold, i.e. it should never be too hot / painful.

If treatment is well below the pain threshold it is generally ineffective. However, if treatment is consistently painful, then yes, it is too much and can cause irritation or injury.

But proper, natural, responsibly applied RF should never be painful.

On the other hand, there are some clinics/practitioners who claim that with their extremely painful - and extremely expensive - radiofrequency treatments “you only need one treatment, OK maybe two, OK perhaps three at the most”.

However, biology does not care about “I have a lot of cash”, “I don’t care about pain”, “I don’t care about potential skin injury” and “I want firm/smooth legs yesterday”. You cannot force your skin into submission with brute force. Such a thing is not going to end up well.

Safe, effective cellulite reduction or skin tightening (the two main applications of radiofrequency) requires both time and repeated treatment.

The fact is that painful RF treatments, requiring numbing cream to mask the pain, aim to PHYSICALLY BURN the deeper skin layers (hypodermis and subcutaneous adipose tissue) with the hope that skin will then regenerate and become firmer/smoother later.

However, in most cases this doesn’t happen. With this approach, skin either becomes worse, it gets injured or does not improve. These extreme intensity radiofrequency treatments fall into the “too much radiofrequency" category.

Extreme intensity RF treatments require very long intervals between sessions simply because they cause actual physical skin damage (deliberate deep skin burns) which the body must repair first before being able to undergo another one of those treatments. So, with these techniques, always provided with anaesthesia, we are talking about treatment frequency of 3-6 months.

Indeed, with the extreme intensity radiofrequency variety (provided with numbing cream), there is indeed such as thing as ‘too much radiofrequency’.

This is because every such session is a time-bomb for permanent injury: the more of them you have, they higher the chances of reacting and getting burns, scar tissue, post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation or fibrosis.

Needless to say that having extreme intensity RF microneedling “for faster results” is even worse and alike to playing russian roulette, just with much higher injury odds.

Having radiofrequency treatment too often

Too much radiofrequency can also refer to too regular treatment.

With responsibly applied deep-acting, high-power radiofrequency, the golden standard for natural, safe and effective cellulite reduction and skin tightening, a gap of two full days is required between sessions, depending on intensity used.

Occasionally an one-off one day gap can be OK but continuous treatments with just one day gap are just too much and irresponsible.

Daily treatment is really irresponsible and will certainly lead to irritation.

Of course, with low-level RF you may have treatment every day, but low-level RF is also ineffective, so you will try to add up many ineffective treatments to achieve a small effect, thereby wasting time and energy.

Plus, daily application of anything can end up in adverse reactions, anyway.

Having too many RF treatments

When deep-acting, high-power radiofrequency is responsibly applied and natural, there is no such thing as too many treatments. You can have as many such radiofrequency treatments as you wish and you will keep improving without any fear of side effects.

At the clinic, we have clients who, after their first course of 12x sessions, have maintenance treatments once a month for several years and these treatments are safe, effective and problem-free.

With properly applied RF there is no such thing as too many treatments.

Safe, effective, responsibly applied radiofrequency

All in all, deep radiofrequency just below the pain threshold and provided with a gap of at least 1-2 days between sessions, is both safe and effective, long term, if provided by a well-trained, experienced and knowledgable therapist.

With extreme intensity radiofrequency though, provided with numbing cream, problems may be encountered from the very first first session and may be compounded with repeated sessions.

And, of course, daily RF treatment is pointless, with any type of radiofrequency.

Have a skin tightening/cellulite treatment in London with the experts

At LipoTherapeia we have specialised 100% in skin tightening and cellulite reduction for more than two decades and 20,000+ sessions.

This is all we study and practise every day and have researched and tried hands-on all the important skin tightening equipment and their manufacturers.

As strong, deep acting radiofrequency and deep-acting, high-power ultrasound cavitation are the technologies of choice for skin tightening and cellulite reduction, we have invested in the best RF/ultrasound technologies in the world.

Furthermore, over the last two decades we have developed advanced RF and cavitation treatment protocols in order to make the most of our technologies, for maximum results, naturally and safely.

And for even better, faster results, we now combine our RF/ultrasound treatments with high-power red/infrared light LED treatment.

Our radiofrequency/ultrasound/LED treatments are comfortable, pain-free, downtime-free, injection-free, microneedling-free, 99.5%+ safe and always non-invasive.

And our focus is on honest, realistic, science-based treatment, combined with caring, professional service, with a smile.

We will be pleased to see you, assess your cellulite, skin laxity or fibrosis, listen to your story, discuss your case and offer you the best possible treatment.

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At LipoTherapeia we are passionate about phototherapy (also known as photobiomodulation/PBM, red light therapy, infrared light therapy, blue light therapy, LED light therapy etc) and we use the most powerful equipment available today (up to 200mW/cm2), for best results and treatment of large body areas.

We use specialised therapy protocols for skin rejuvenation / anti-ageing, pigmentation / post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation (PIH), moderate/severe acne, skin redness, sensitive/inflamed/irritated skin, wound healing, sports injuries / musculoskeletal pain and overall wellness / well-being.

Our LED phototherapy sessions are comfortable, deeply relaxing and super-safe and are great to enhance our radiofrequency/ultrasound treatments for skin tightening / cellulite reduction.

On our booking page you can book stand-alone phototherapy sessions or combine them with our other treatments, as an add-on.

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