Emsculpt

How Supramaximal Muscle Contractions Achieve What Exercise Can’t

When you exercise, your muscles contract. Between every rep, the muscle fibers relax because your central nervous system and motor nerves can only send a single nerve signal to the muscle at a time. The highest amount of tension that can be developed is called the “maximal voluntary contraction” (MVC), and it usually only lasts for a fraction of a second. This limits the amount of work your muscles can do and the results you can expect from them.

Emsculpt overcomes this limitation by generating impulses that stimulate your muscles to contract rapidly. They don’t relax between impulses. These contractions that are faster and longer-lasting than MVCs are called “supramaximal muscle contractions.” Emsculpt has the unique ability to generate supramaximal contractions for multiple seconds, resulting in a significant increase in the stress and workload that your muscles need in order to grow. When muscles are exposed to supramaximal contractions, they respond with an increase in:

• Muscle size
• The number of muscle fibers

What does that mean for you? Increased muscle mass and definition.

Emsculpt also reduces fat in the area of treatment. During supramaximal muscle contractions, muscles require energy to produce contractions. That energy comes mainly from adenosine triphosphate (ATP). When the muscles run out of their normal fuel, they must use fat from your body’s fat stores. The fat can be burned anywhere in your body, but it’s usually focused near the areas of muscle contraction. The metabolism of fat regularly results in a decrease in the size of fat cells. But if it’s rapid enough, like the supramaximal muscle contraction from Emsculpt, it can cause fat cells to die, resulting in permanent fat loss in the areas of muscle contraction.

What Can Emsculpt Do for You?

Build Muscle

Traditional exercise increases muscle mass by creating tiny micro-injuries to the muscle. Your body responds to these injuries by repairing them with thicker, larger muscle fibers, which equals muscle growth.

Define Muscle

Muscle definition occurs when two things happen simultaneously:

1. Muscle growth
2. Fat loss

Both occur during a single session of Emsculpt.

Sculpt Your Body

Body sculpting is the purposeful, deliberate reshaping of your natural body contours by increasing and toning specific muscles and losing or redistributing fat in specific areas.

Non-Invasively Sculpt Your Abdomen

Exercise strengthens and tones the abdominal muscles and can result in a “six-pack” of abs. Targeted loss of subcutaneous and intra-abdominal fat with Emsculpt further refines the appearance of the abdomen by accentuating two parts of it:

• The large, flat area in the middle, called the linea alba
• The tendinous inscriptions that separate the six-pack muscles

Non-Invasively Lift Your Butt

Emsculpt is a non-surgical technique that strengthens and tones the gluteal muscles, resulting in firmer, more projected, and lifted buttocks without the use of implants, dermal fillers, or fat graft.

Correct Flat Buttocks

As people age, they lose muscle mass throughout the body. In the buttocks, this results in a saggy or deflated appearance. Strengthening these muscles with Emsculpt can combat this change.

Firm and Tone the Buttocks

Repeated supramaximal contractions of the gluteal muscles results in the firm, tight, high buttocks many patients desire.

Correct Muscle Wasting in the Buttocks

Lack of exercise, aging, and other factors contribute to the loss of muscle mass in the buttocks. This not only results in the appearance of a “sagging” butt but can also make it difficult to sit and stand, and sitting on hard surfaces can be uncomfortable. Strengthened muscles via Emsculpt can correct these issues.

Strengthen and Tone Your Arms

Many patients are embarrassed to wear clothes that expose their arms because of a lack of muscle, excess fat, or poor skin tone. Emsculpt can help build and tone your arm muscles by activating all the muscle groups 360 degrees around the arm. The result is an exercise that strengthens all the arm muscles—not just isolated groups. Targeted fat loss also helps increase muscle definition in the arms.

Get Rid of Too-Skinny or Too-Fat Calves

Many patients are dissatisfied with the appearance of their calves. They are either too skinny because they lack muscle, or they’re too fat because they have excess fat. Emsculpt simultaneously increases muscle mass and tone in the hard-to-exercise calf muscles and burns their subcutaneous fat.

Improve the Appearance of the Thighs

Emsculpt has been approved for application to the thigh muscles, strengthening them and reducing fat deposits in these hard-to-treat areas.

Strengthen Your Core Muscles

Core strengthening focuses on your abdominal, back, and pelvic muscles. After Emsculpt supramaximal muscle contractions in the core —which you cannot produce on your own—patients typically notice significant improvement in their core strength, posture, and back pain. This is particularly important for athletes, avid yoga participants, singers and vocalists, and people with long commutes.

Reduce Intra-Abdominal Fat

Did you know fat can be located inside your abdomen? It’s called “visceral fat,” and it can’t be eliminated with traditional surgical approaches, like liposuction. In the past, the only way to reduce this fat was with diet and exercise. Emsculpt is the only FDA-approved body-sculpting device that has been shown to reduce this intra-abdominal, visceral fat.

Burn Calories

Emsculpt’s supramaximal muscle contractions rapidly deplete the energy stores in your muscles, forcing fat cells in the area to utilize their fat stores for energy. This accelerates calorie loss in the entire body, as well as shrinking and killing fat cells in the treatment area.

Reduce Fat and Build Muscle with No Downtime

You can obtain permanent fat reduction and muscle building with Emsculpt. It does not require needles, scalpels, sutures, anesthesia, or any other type of procedure.

How Much Does Emsculpt Cost?

Emsculpt is typically performed in a series of four treatments. If you’d like, you can have regular maintenance treatments after this every three to four months. The MSRP for a cycle of 4 treatments is $3,000.

Does Emsculpt Work with Other Treatments?

Yes! Emsculpt is FDA-approved for building and defining muscle, but the abdomen is comprised of skin and fat as well as muscle. It’s not unusual for patients to benefit from treating all these areas, and not just one. For instance, patients with loose skin benefit from Pellevé® to tighten it. Patients with excess fat may benefit from liposuction.

What Is Recovery Like?

There is virtually no recovery time after Emsculpt. Patients leave the office after a session, feeling better already. Some patients experience soreness after treatment, but this is minimized by the specific programs in the Emsculpt device. These programs time contractions so your muscles flush out the lactic acid that makes them sore after a workout. You can go straight from your Emsculpt session to the pool or the beach!

What Are the Risks Associated with Emsculpt?

There are no inherent risks of the Emsculpt treatment. The only reason to not have Emsculpt performed is if you are pregnant or have a metal implant in the area of treatment, since Emsculpt requires the use of a powerful magnet.

What Is the Emsculpt Procedure Like?

Despite the dramatic results, you will be able to leave your Emsculpt session and return to your day with no disruption to your routine. Patients often see positive results after one session, but most patients will have multiple sessions to achieve their optimal figure. Treatment time lasts 30 minutes and does not require a needle, gel, or any form of intervention aside from applying the Emsculpt paddles to your skin!

There are two separate applicators, so it is possible to treat both arms, your legs, calves, or buttocks at the same time.