“Body contouring” can be such a broad term, and it means different things for different people. However, when it comes to your body, it’s understandable that you’d want some clarity about what body contouring is and how it can help you.
At Crescent Beach Care, we’re here to provide clarity when it comes to treatment. In this blog, we’ll address all the misinformation about body contouring in St. Augustine and provide a clear plan on how we can help you feel more confident, both in your care and in your own skin.
What is body contouring?
Body contouring, sometimes called “body sculpting,” is a procedure, surgical or nonsurgical, that helps re-shape certain areas of the body. This can be done on one area or several, but is most commonly performed on the abdomen, buttocks, or face.
While we can pair these procedures with weight loss treatments, body contouring in St. Augustine is not meant to help you lose weight. Body contouring can help you target specific areas of fat to refine your physique, but generally won’t have a significant impact on your overall body weight. Instead, we suggest starting body contouring treatments once you are close to or have met your goal weight. That way, the results you achieve are effective and sustainable.
Invasive vs. Minimally Invasive vs. Noninvasive
When it comes to body contouring, you have several options available to you. Ranging from more invasive surgical intervention to completely noninvasive, downtime-free treatments, finding the right approach first starts with understanding the differences between the types of body contouring procedures.
Invasive
Invasive procedures, including surgeries like a tummy tuck or breast lift, are where surgeons manually reshape areas of the body by making incisions and sutures to remove pockets of fat and excess skin. Surgical procedures often produce dramatic results, but they can be expensive, require extensive recovery time, and aren’t always the best fit for individuals looking for more natural enhancements.
Minimally Invasive
Minimally invasive procedures do not include surgeries, but can include other somewhat invasive methods like injections. Minimally invasive methods include wrinkle relaxers, dermal fillers, microneedling, and more. The downtime and discomfort for these types of body contouring treatments is much less than with invasive procedures, offering more subtle enhancements.
Noninvasive
Noninvasive treatments for body contouring in St. Augustine do not use any invasive methods whatsoever. Instead, they use unique technology like ultrasound or radiofrequency to melt fat, build muscle, and tighten skin. These treatments are usually comfortable, quick, and require little to no downtime. With the ability to fine-tune treatments and build results over time, noninvasive methods are excellent additions to a healthy lifestyle and can help you put the finishing touches on your figure.
Our Offered Body Contouring Treatments
We offer both minimally invasive and noninvasive body contouring treatments at Crescent Beach Care. Here, we’ll go into detail about all our body contouring services and how they can help you feel more confident in how you look.
Emsculpt NEO
Emsculpt NEO is an exceptional body contouring treatment that combines radiofrequency and HIFEM (high-intensity focused electromagnetic) energy to both build muscle and melt fat. This noninvasive treatment uses the heat from radiofrequency to penetrate into the subcutaneous layer of skin. This is where stubborn fat lives, and the heat damages the membranes of the fat cells while leaving no damage in the surrounding skin or tissue.
Meanwhile, the HIFEM energy stimulates muscle contractions in the targeted area, helping to strengthen and tone muscles. Together, Emsculpt NEO can build up to 25% more muscle and melt up to 30% of fat.
Emface
Emface works similarly to Emsculpt NEO, but instead uses a lower frequency of RF and HIFES (high-intensity facial electric stimulation) to trigger contractions in your facial muscles while the gentle RF increases collagen and elastin production. Collagen and elastin are two proteins that help keep your skin healthy and flexible.
By increasing your body’s natural production of these proteins using heat, this helps tighten sagging skin and smooth wrinkles. Meanwhile, the HIFES energy contracts your facial muscles to build up facial volume and add more dynamic elements to your features. Overall, this helps improve and restore your youthful glow.
Emtone
Emtone is a body contouring treatment that specifically targets cellulite. Cellulite affects 80% to 90% of all women, as well as many men, and is caused by small pockets of fat pressing up against the surface of the skin. Emtone combines the heat from radiofrequency with mechanical energy to target the pockets of fat, breaking down the cellular membranes to destroy the fat cells. These help shrink the pockets of fat and create areas of smoother skin.
Exion
Exion is another noninvasive option for body contouring in St. Augustine that uses heat generated from radiofrequency to tighten skin and melt fat. However, the treatment combines radiofrequency with ultrasound to amplify the effects of treatment, pushing the heat deeper into the skin to enhance the results.
Exion can be used all over the body, and even has a separate applicator for the face. The reason many of these treatments have separate approaches for the face and body is because the level of heat that is applied to the body cannot be applied to the face, as this would remove fat from your facial features. While fat is often an unwanted feature on other parts of the body, fat actually keeps your face looking youthful.
RF Microneedling
The last of our offered treatments for body contouring in St. Augustine, RF microneedling combines radiofrequency with microneedling to multiply your results dramatically. Microneedling is a popular minimally invasive treatment that uses small needles to create micro-channels within your skin.
This stimulates your body’s healing response without actually causing injury, increasing the natural production of collagen and elastin. Adding heat from radiofrequency pushes the production of these proteins deeper into your skin, creating lasting improvements using your body’s own natural processes.
Care Instructions
There are ways to prepare for body contouring treatments, and ways to care for your body afterwards to help maintain your results. Your provider will give you personalized instructions for your individual treatment plan, but here are the general recommendations you can expect to receive:
Pre-Care Instructions
- Drink plenty of water before treatment. This will help improve results and keep you hydrated. We suggest drinking half your body weight in ounces of water each day.
- Wear sunscreen the week before getting body contouring in St. Augustine to protect the treatment area. We recommend using a mineral-based sunscreen with a minimum of 30 SPF.
- Avoid receiving other exfoliating treatments or using harsh skincare products 4 weeks before your appointment. This could cause damage to your skin.
- Arrive to your appointment with clean skin. No lotions, perfumes, or makeup should be present in the treatment area.
- Avoid tobacco and alcohol. These will dehydrate your body and prevent you from achieving the best results possible.
Post-Care Instructions
- Continue protecting your skin by wearing a minimum of SPF 30 sunscreen when going outside.
- Refrain from undergoing other exfoliating treatments or using harsh skincare products in the treatment area 4 weeks following your appointment for body contouring in St. Augustine.
- Keep your body hydrated by drinking plenty of water. This will help your results last longer.
- Avoid exposing your skin to irritating environments like the pool, sauna, or hot tubs.
Why do people get body contouring?
Some patients enjoy receiving treatments for body contouring because it improves how confident they feel in their body. Whether their body has changed from aging, they’ve gone through childbirth, or they have simply never felt fully comfortable in their own skin, our goal at Crescent Beach Care is to help patients feel great both inside and out.
We offer a variety of body contouring treatments because we know that how you achieve your ideal results is just as important as what they look like. Whether you’re not comfortable with needles or surgery, or are looking for a no-downtime treatment that will help you finally get your beach body, our team can help you find the perfect combination of treatments that fits your needs and accomplishes your goals.
Discover Your Confidence
When you look in the mirror, you should love what you see instead of wishing the reflection was different. Our team at Crescent Beach Care focuses on meeting you where you’re at when it comes to your health and beauty, helping you create a care plan that achieves your goals.
Ready to create your care plan? You can schedule an appointment with one of our providers today to start creating your ideal plan. And if you’re not ready to commit to an appointment, don’t worry. You can use our complimentary treatment planning tool to find the best treatments based on your specific needs. Either way, we will provide you with the knowledge and resources you need to be successful. Reach out to our team to begin your aesthetics and wellness journey, and start feeling confident in the curves you see in the mirror today.
