ISSUE: Winter 2004
Cosmeceuticals & Anti-aging
Massage Gets a High-Tech Hand
ELECTROMECHANICAL MODALITIES OFFER THERAPISTS A VARIETY OF TREATMENT OPTIONS
There are times when all of us could use an extra hand in the treatment room. How about one that uses the latest in high-tech engineering, with years of product development and research behind it, personalized customer service, and simple yet powerful physiotherapy techniques? Mechanical massage equipment can give you the extra hand needed to improve efficiency in your medical spa, wellness center, or any medical clinic treatment room, providing a strong and durable, as well as a sensitive and precise, assistant...
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Dermatology
The Beauty of Marketing Your Cosmetic Practice
In previous years, it wasn’t advised or even acceptable to market your practice. However, as competition grows and demand increases, it is apparent that physicians need to become business people just like everyone else. The reality is that physicians must brand, position, and market themselves if they want to capture the attention of their perfect target market...
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Laser & Light Technology
LED Photorejuvenation
THE PHOTOBIOLOGY OF LIGHT EMITTING DIODES
Photobiomodulation first appeared in publications close to 30 years ago and still the biological effects of low intensity lasers and light emitting diodes (LEDs) are generating significant controversy and interest in the scientific community. To date over 2000 studies on this subject have been published, providing greater understanding. As the underlying mechanisms are more clearly elucidated, and real clinical results are observed, interest in photobiomodulation is increasing...
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Legal Case of the Month
It’s the Law!
WHAT YOU DON’T KNOW ABOUT MEDICAL SPA RULES CAN HURT YOU
Did you know that on September 1, New Jersey became the first state to impose a 6% tax on cosmetic medical procedures? It covers a wide range of aesthetic treatments, from dermabrasion to cosmetic dentistry. The good news is that it means that the cosmetic medical business has become so lucrative that legislatures are taxing it to get a piece of the revenue which is being generated. That law and many others, both new and long-standing, are “mustknows” for medical spa owners and owners-to-be...
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Medical Spas
Combination Therapies
~ A Y U R V E D A ~ A SOUND MIND AND BODY APPROACH
The growth of Medical Spas continues to be a spiraling phenomenon with the end nowhere in sight. Public demand for treatments and therapies which will ameliorate or lessen daily assaults, if long-term and left untreated, can possibly evolve into health-threatening diseases or conditions. Daily our bodies are assaulted with all different forms of stress; and by all reports our bodies are getting weaker, not stronger...
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Men’s Aesthetic Procedures
hGH Human Growth Hormone
UNDERSTANDING TREATMENT AND OUTCOME
We all want to look and feel younger even as we get older. There is a new paradigm in medicine which asserts that we can, indeed, live much longer than our current allotment of seven to eight decades without the serious infirmities which now taint our golden years. This bold new approach views aging itself as a disease process which can be rectified primarily by antioxidants and hormone repletion. Human growth hormone (hGH) offers the most promise for its purported ability to not only halt the aging process, but also to reverse it...
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Plastic Surgery
Lipostructure
AS AN ADJUNCT TO FACIAL PLASTIC SURGERY
Lipostructure® as pioneered by Sydney Coleman, M.D., has become an invaluable method of treating the aging face as well as providing volume in younger faces with hypoplastic areas including the cheeks, jawline, and lips. The concept of this procedure is based upon filling the skin envelope, especially in the aging face. The aging process involves loss of elasticity of the overlying skin as well as atrophy of the underlying soft tissue and bony structure. Lipostructure alone can significantly improve the appearance of the aging face by replacing volume and “filling the envelope.” However, there is a middle ground which exists where adding volume as well as contouring the skin is necessary to provide optimal results...
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