How often should I have cavitation treatment?

How often should I have RF / ultrasound cavitation treatment for cellulite reduction / skin tightening?

• RF / cavitation treatment once a week

• Cavitation / RF treatment three times a week

• Cavitation treatment every day

• How often should you do ultrasound cavitation at home? What happens if you do cavitation every day?

• Treatment once a month or less often

• Destructive RF / ultrasound

• Stimulative cavitation treatment every 3-15 days is perfect

• FAQs: How often can I do cavitation on my stomach?

• FAQs: How often can you do cavitation at home?

• FAQs: What happens if you do cavitation every day?

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RF / cavitation treatment once a week

High-power ultrasound cavitation are the two best technologies for cellulite removal and skin tightening.

With a high-power setup, the optimum frequency for treatments is once every 3-15 days, i.e. there must be a minimum 1 full day between sessions and a maximum of 15 days.

The one-day gap allows for recovery between sessions, which means maximum intensity can be used during treatment.

Weekly treatment is the most practical for most people, but treatment twice a week, for people who want faster results is equally effective (always with a minimum of one full day between sessions).

Treatment every two weeks is just about fine and a great compromise for very busy people, but results will obviously take longer to appear, as sessions are spread more apart.

Cavitation / RF treatment three times a week

An one-day gap is not enough to allow full recovery between sessions, when full intensity is used.

If sub-maximal intensity is used, treatment can be received three times a week for maximum impact in a short space of time.

However, treatment three times a week for more than two weeks becomes too much and is not recommended.

Cavitation treatment every day

This is a really bad idea, even if low-end, low intensity equipment is used, as:

• It is always important to let skin recover for at least one day between sessions

• It is a waste of time and money to use a low-power, low-end machine, as best results are achieved from 6-12 maximum intensity SAFE sessions, not from 10-20-30 sessions at low intensities

How often should you do ultrasound cavitation at home? What happens if you do cavitation every day?

All RF / cavitation home-use machines are very low-end (low power, superficial and usually low quality) to be affordable and also to protect the public from burning themselves.

Such machines typically produce zero or very few results. So doing cavitation at home with a low-end machine every day will not achieve much.

You are better off saving your money to go to a good clinic for a great result than to waste it on a home use machine.

Treatment once a month or less often

In terms of improvement with cellulite reduction and skin tightening, this is an absolute joke and only suits clinics, not clients, as in this way clinic can fit more people in their schedule and/or charge more per session.

“You keep improving for six months between sessions, hence we charge you £800-£3,500 for each session - and you only need one session [or “two” or “three” or “four”, insert as required]”, is the usual blurb.

Indeed RF treatments keep producing results for up to about three months but for good results regular treatments are needed. You don’t need to - and you should not - wait to see the full results to have another sessions.

This is equivalent to saying that if a gym session takes a month to give you the full muscle growth, you should only go to the gym once a month.

No-one will get good, long-term, results with just 1-4 sessions, and definitely not if they have treatment every 1-6 months.

Both regularity (every 3-15 days) and multiplicity of sessions (6-12 sessions) are needed for good results.

Treatment once a month or even once in two months is perfect for prevention / maintenance, but not for improvement.

Destructive RF / ultrasound

Some destructive RF/ultrasound treatments cause so much damage that you indeed need a few months of recovery between another injurious session.

These are:

• Stationary, i.e. the operator does not continuously move the handpiece in order to actually burn the skin inside

• Snd they are always provided with anaesthetic cream or injections, as they are very painful

Needless to say that we are totally against destructive RF treatments that burn the skin first in order to harden it later: too many adverse reactions (as in burns and scar tissue), too much pain and they don’t work well either.

And due to the sensitivity / damage caused by such treatments, we refuse to touch such cases at the clinic for at least six months after destructive RF / ultrasound treatment.

Stimulative cavitation treatment every 3-15 days is perfect

The way to go is stimulative high-power ultrasound cavitation, applied from three times a week to once in fifteen days and always provided responsibly by a well-trained, experienced and knowledgable therapist.

FAQ: How often can I do cavitation on my stomach?

If you receive a proper, strong RF treatment, you have to leave a gap of anything between 1-15 days between sessions.

Radiofrequency treatment every day, on the stomach or anywhere else, is not a good idea.

FAQ: How often can you do cavitation at home?

RF home machines are typically a waste of time: just not deep and not strong enough.

In theory, you can compensate for a weak machine by having treatment every day or very long sessions. But I would still leave at least one day between sessions, to be on the safe side, especially given that non-professionals can go “crazy” with machines at home and find ways to overdo it.

This is especially true when you use cheap Chinese imports which are not approved by regulators in your country.

FAQ: What happens if you do cavitation every day?

Strong, professional cavitation treatments every day are unsafe. You must allow at least 1-2 days between sessions and sometimes more, to allow the skin to recover.

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