Cellulite Solutions by Infinite Ideas

Author:Infinite Ideas [Infinite Ideas, Cherry Maslen, Linda Bird]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Infinite Ideas Ltd
Published: 2012-01-16T00:00:00+00:00

28. Tomorrow’s world

Send in the boffins: it’s time for science to come to the rescue. Here’s how the latest high-tech treatments can help zap cellulite away.

We could all do with a bit of sci-fi wizardry to help smooth crinkly thighs. After all, what’s science for? Keep up to speed on the latest gizmos.

Laser treatments used to be offered to cellulite sufferers until the arrival of endermologie, the machine-based massage therapy and one of the very few cellulite treatments to get hard-to-come-by approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). At that time, clinics and salons tended to stop doing laser and switched instead to endermologie, which gave better results.

But it’s a different story now. Endermologie is still a favoured cellulite-buster, but the next generation of treatments has arrived. These have two, if not three, different elements, often including both endermologie and laser technology, with maybe a heat source, such as radiofrequency, thrown in. In the race to find ever more effective treatments, new therapies with tech-y names keep appearing, many of which overlap confusingly with one another. It’s enough to make you pine for the days when all you had to choose from was a good old body-brush or a pot of cream (well, almost)!

But it’s worth checking out these new therapies, because some serious money and research is going into the quest for the holy grail of cellulite treatments, and out there somewhere could be the one that works for you. That said, don’t swallow everything you read in brochures or on company websites –and it’s best not to expect miracles, however high-tech the treatment sounds.

One new treatment, known as Velasmooth, was developed in the USA and has already been given FDA approval. It uses a combination of massage rollers and vacuum sucking of the dimply fat (like endermologie) to help break fatty deposits down, and infrared light and radiofrequency (a bit like microwave technology). The idea is that warming up the fat will soften it and make it easier to disperse. Whatever you make of being partly cooked, vacuumed and pummelled – and some of the more sensitive among you might not like it much at all – so far much of the photographic evidence of the results coupled with first-hand experience make it look worth a try. A big plus seems to be that, as long as you can commit to having enough treatments in a fairly short space of time, results can be pretty rapid.

Be warned, though, that with this, and other machine-dependent treatments, you may have to keep going back for more to keep your thighs looking good – a bit like botox for the forehead or facial lines, or collagen for plumping up lips.

What’s up next?

One of the top laser development companies, previously known for using laser technology to zap acne, reduce age spots and remove tattoos, is launching a new variation on cellulite zapping in time for summer 2006. Called Bio-cellulate, this one combines deep endermologie massage with infrared laser therapy, and research and trial results are described as ‘exciting’.

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