Radio Frequency Benefits
FOR ANTI-AGING, SKIN TIGHTENING (FACE/BODY) AND CELLULITE REMOVAL
As our specialization at the LipoTherapeia clinic is facial skin tightening and body skin tightening/cellulite, we have worked for more than 8 years with Radio frequency. In order to know exactly what I am talking about and to offer the best to my clients, I have also intensively studied the Physics of Radio frequency in detail, reviewed all the research and assessed/tried hands-on most important machines. Having studied Physics at university in the past was quite useful for that.
On this page I would like to share some of my knowledge with you, so in the next several weeks I will be adding more and more articles about Radio frequency, especially technical information to help you decide what is the best radio frequency treatment for yourself as a client or for your clinic as a practitioner.
However, for legal and practical reasons and for the sake of neutrality, I will not be able to suggest / provide information about a specific machine, treatment or clinic, neither reply to emails with specific technical queries about Radio frequency. Such emails will not be answered.
WHAT IS RADIO FREQUENCY & HOW IT WORKS
WHAT IS RADIO FREQUENCY TREATMENT?
Applied on the body or face at a lower frequency, electrical currents may produce muscle contraction or other effects. At "radio" frequencies, electrical currents produce just heat.
Depending on the machine you have, the protocols you apply and even the skin products you use (cream, gel etc), heat can be very superficial (e.g. focusing on epidermis for acne treatment), very deep (e.g. focusing in joints or muscles for physiotherapy) or anywhere in between. For aesthetic treatments, radio frequency is focused on epidermis (acne, superficial skin tightening, skin rejuvenation); dermis (medium depth skin tightening, lifting, skin rejuvenation); subdermis (deep skin tightening, lifting, cellulite); or subcutaneous tissue (spot fat reduction).
RADIO FREQUENCY DIATHERMY
When heat is deep we are talking about radio frequency diathermy or true radio frequency. As applying heat on the epidermis can be achieved by all sorts of other means, including infrared, laser, hot water and even a hot pack, there is not much point in providing superficial radio frequency per se, except in the case of acne.
The idea of RF is to mainly affect the deep tissues (dermis, subdermis, subcutaneous fat), while largely bypassing the epidermis. Affecting mainly the epidermis, while leaving the deeper tissues largely unaffected, is pointless, because as a result such treatment will burn the epidermis before the dermis or subdermis experience any therapeutic levels of heat.
MOST RF TREATMENTS FOCUS SO MUCH ON THE EPIDERMIS, THEY ARE NOT TRUE RADIO FREQUENCY
WHERE DOES THE NAME DERIVE FROM? DOES RF HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH RADIATION, RADIOACTIVITY OR MICROWAVES?
HOW DOES RADIO FREQUENCY TREATMENT WORK
As we discussed above, radio frequency is a smart way to provide deep heating to tissues, without burning or irritating the epidermis in the process. According to research, intense heating on deep tissues has quite a few benefits: it boosts collagen and elastin production and blood circulation, for increased tightening and elasticity and overall skin rejuvenation. When applied quite deeply, it also stimulates fat release from fat cells, leading to spot far reduction and cellulite removal. And when applied a bit more superficially it also helps tighten pores and inhibit the action of sebaceous glands, leading to a clearer complexion with less acne or enlarged pores.
THE EXACT MECHANISM
With radio frequency treatment, electrical current enters the skin from one pole, which is charged positively, and then exits the skin from another, which is charged negatively. A split of a second later, the polarity changes and what used to be a plus pole becomes minus and vice versa. This happens hundreds of thousands or millions of times a second.
Now if the frequency of the current was much lower, for example 100Hz (one hundred such polarity alternations per second) then we would have muscular contraction. Indeed such low frequencies are used in TENS machines for pain relief and in other physiotherapy machines for muscle rehabilitation etc.
As I mentioned earlier, at higher frequencies we do not have muscular contractions, we just have heat. This is because the frequency is so high that so called "motor nerves" are not fast enough to sense the polarity alternation, so no muscular contraction occurs.
MOLECULAR MOVEMENT = HEAT
The answer is simple. if you remember from high school Physics, heat is random molecular movement. With RF currents, the alternation of the current is so fast that no charge or no molecules ever really move towards one pole or the other. As a result, molecules just vibrate around a central position or simply rotate. This random molecular movement (vibration or rotation) manifests macroscopically as heat.
In a nutshell, this is how radio frequency works: it vibrates our molecules, producing heat.
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