“At LipoTherapeia we will always offer you honest advice. We will refer you to have surgery if this is what you need and we will offer you the strongest SAFE non-surgical skin tightening treatment if you are a good candidate for that. With 24+ year experience you can count on expert advice and treatment.”
Skin tightening after significant weight loss - what are the options?
“I have lost 25kg over the last two years and now skin on my thighs, bum, arms and stomach is loose (but not droopy). What is the best non-surgical treatment for me?”
When surgery is the only skin tightening option
When non-surgical skin tightening treatments make more sense
Cellulite reduction and skin tightening combined
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“I have lost 25kg over the last two years and now skin on my thighs, bum, arms and stomach is loose (but not droopy). What is the best non-surgical treatment for me?”
We get these messages very often, especially in the last couple of years due to Ozempic/Wegovy and Mounjaro.
Of course, such weight loss does not exclusively occur due to those GLP-1 receptor agonist drugs - some people still utilise willpower to lose weight - but more and more people lose 20, 30 or more kilograms (~50, 60 or more pounds).
Our best case this year was a young woman who lost about 50kg within two years, just with willpower. Many other of our clients this year have lost 10, 20 and even 30kg with Ozempic, Wegovy or Mounjaro.
However, with weight gain skin stretches to accommodate the extra volume and as a result after weight loss you are left with excess skin that needs tightening.
When surgery is the only skin tightening option
Now if skin laxity is excessive and skin is literally hanging, surgery is the only option. No non-surgical treatment will offer good results. So in those cases a thigh lift, arm lift or tummy tuck etc are the best options.
However, even in those cases sometimes surgeons cannot remove all skin laxity, as that would entail leaving a huge scar or due to other constraints. So even in the cases that need surgery for skin tightening there is scope for some non-surgical skin tightening treatments.
Also, a thigh lift or arm lift will not eliminate cellulite, so again a good non-surgical treatment can add the finishing touches to surgery by reducing cellulite.
We have cases like those where despite the overall good job done by the surgeon people feel the need for further skin tightening and cellulite reduction (of course a second surgery and a second set of huge scar are not an option for these people).
When non-surgical skin tightening treatments make more sense
In many cases skin laxity after weight loss may be significant but not excessive and skin does not hang. Also, many people would not want to have surgery, either due to the huge scars usually left or just because they don’t like the idea of surgery itself.
For those people a good non-surgical skin tightening treatment is the only option. The strongest SAFE skin tightening treatment is deep-acting, high-power radiofrequency and it helps with cellulite reduction at the same time, so you get a combined benefit with the sue of this technology.
When provided by an experienced and knowledgable therapist, deep-acting, high-power radiofrequency is far more effective and far safer than RF microneedling, HIFU or even bipolar radiofrequency, the other three technologies usually proposed for skin tightening (anything else is just not even worth mentioning for skin tightening).
For this reason, at LipoTherapeia we use deep-acting, high-power radiofrequency and we have 14+ years of experience in this technology, which ensures that you will get the best advice and treatment possible.
Cellulite reduction and skin tightening combined
Furthermore, we combine our deep-acting, high-power radiofrequency with:
Deep-acting, high-power ultrasound cavitation, for added anti-cellulite action
High-power LED phototherapy, which - if provided right after radiofrequency or ultrasound - helps maximise the results of these technologies
For typical skin tightening cases we recommend 6-12 sessions, received every 2-14 days. However, for significant post-weight loss skin laxity we honestly recommend 12-24 sessions.
(Trying to offer stronger treatment for faster results - with ANY technology - may end up in skin burns and we never do that. Safety is as important as effectiveness for us and our safety rate is better than 99.5%+, with the remaining 0.5%- of cases being mild, temporary irritation.)
Our skin tightening treatments offered at two intensities: LipoTherapeia Plus and LipoTherapeia Intensive, with the Intensive option usually being reserved for female UK dress sizes of 12+.
You can check treatment durations and full pricing for different body areas here and you can check availability and book here. Any questions, please let us know here.
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At LipoTherapeia we have specialised 100% in skin tightening and cellulite reduction for more than two decades and 20,000+ sessions.
This is all we study and practise every day and have researched and tried hands-on all the important skin tightening equipment and their manufacturers.
As strong, deep acting radiofrequency and deep-acting, high-power ultrasound cavitation are the technologies of choice for skin tightening and cellulite reduction, we have invested in the best RF/ultrasound technologies in the world.
(Of course, we keep looking for new technologies every day and if/when a better technology materialises we will be the first to provide it. However, we will never follow the latest ineffective gimmick, just because it’s good marketing to offer the latest hyped up - yet ineffective and/or unsafe treatment.)
Furthermore, over the last two decades we have developed advanced RF and cavitation treatment protocols in order to make the most of our technologies, for maximum results, naturally and safely.
And for even better, faster results, we now combine our RF/ultrasound treatments with high-power red/infrared light LED treatment.
Our radiofrequency/ultrasound/LED treatments are comfortable, pain-free, downtime-free, injection-free, 99.5%+ safe and always non-invasive.
(No unsafe and ineffective RF microneedling or HIFU and no safe but ineffective acoustic wave therapy, superficial RF (bipolar/tripolar/multipolar etc), low power RF/cavitation, electrical muscle stimulation, lymphatic massage, cupping, dry brushing and no ridiculous bum bum creams.)
Our focus is on honest, realistic, science-based treatment, combined with caring, professional service, with a smile.
We will be pleased to see you, assess your cellulite, skin laxity or fibrosis, listen to your story, discuss your case and offer you the best possible treatment.
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