We offer a number of aesthetic treatments at Vitality Medical Wellness Center that use thermal energy from radiofrequency to revitalize and rejuvenate your skin, but did you know that radiofrequency creates skin improvements beyond aesthetics?
RF skin tightening in Belle Meade, TN, also improves your skin’s overall health! Here, we’ll explain how radiofrequency can essentially “reset” your skin and help improve your overall skin health.
What is radiofrequency?
Radiofrequency is a type of electromagnetic current that can travel through skin, tissue, fat, and muscle. This electromagnetic energy generates heat at temperatures between 122 and 167°F in different tissues, because studies have found that heating the skin above 115°F causes the body to release heat-shock proteins. These proteins come from your body’s response to perceived skin damage, and they cause your body to start increasing production of collagen and elastin.
How does this help my skin?
Increasing collagen and elastin production in your skin can help your skin’s overall health and appearance.
Collagen
Collagen makes up about 30% of your body’s overall protein content, and it is a primary building block of bones, skin, muscles, tendons, ligaments, and connective tissue.
Our bodies naturally start producing less collagen by our 20s, and we eventually lose as much as 1% of our collagen each year beginning in our 40s. By naturally increasing collagen production, radiofrequency helps our skin heal from injuries faster and avoid wrinkles and sun spots from UV damage.
Elastin
Along with collagen, your body also produces elastin, which allows your tissues, skin, and organs to stretch with your body’s natural movements. While collagen helps with this somewhat, elastin is 1,000 times stretchier, and it helps maintain correct function for every part of your body—even your blood vessels.
We naturally lose elastin as we age, but RF skin tightening increases the production of this protein so we can keep our skin stretchy and our bodies performing optimally. While both in-office treatments and at-home skin care improve elastin production, using both will make the biggest impact on your skin.
What Treatments Use Radiofrequency?
At Vitality Wellness, we offer a wide variety of RF treatments, including:
Exion
Exion combines radiofrequency with ultrasound to deliver surface-level and in-depth heat to your skin, creating improvements throughout all layers of your skin.
Emface
Emface combines radiofrequency with HIFES (high-intensity face electrical stimulation) which creates thousands of contractions within your facial muscles while also heating your skin for increased collagen and elastin production.
RF Microneedling
When combined with microneedling, radiofrequency pushes heat deeper into the dermis, stimulating even more collagen and elastin production.
Emsculpt NEO
Emsculpt NEO melts targeted fat and builds muscle by combining radiofrequency with HIFEM (high-intensity focused electromagnetic) energy.
LED Light Therapy
LED light therapy uses different colors of light, which each use a different level of radiofrequency, to address concerns like acne, wrinkles, and inflammation.
Keep Your Skin Happy & Healthy
You can either use our holistic treatment planning tool or request an appointment with one of our providers to explore your options for RF skin tightening.
