Cryolipolis or
CoolSculpting is a procedure performed by doctors and aestheticians to freeze
fat cells at specific targeted areas in your body from where these frozen and
dead cells are removed naturally. This is considered to be a better option than
liposuction as it is way cheaper and gives good results without any incisions.
It also, has no downtime and you can easily revert back to your office or to
physical activities. The results of CoolSculpting can be seen after a few weeks
and sometimes they may take up to three months.
Despite regular
exercise and eating healthy, we all have the 'troubled areas' on our bodies. In
fact, a lot of people have pockets of fat stored in certain regions of their
body which is genetically determined.
By body contouring
the size and appearance of certain parts of your body will reduce permanently.
This is achieved by killing all the fat cells that exist in the problem area.
Now, if there are no fat cells, they cannot expand and make the body part look
bigger and out of proportion. But, it is important to note that body contouring
only reduces about 20 to 25 % of fat cells from that portion of your body and
around 70% of the cells are left unaffected. The fat cells that have been
treated will not grow back but the remaining fat cells may expand and cause you
to gain weight if a good diet and exercise regimen is not followed.
Coolsculpting is
considered to be better than ultrasound and other heat-based fat reducing
treatments as it explodes the targeted fat cells to remove them permanently
without causing any bruising and soreness.
The
CoolSculpting treatment should not be assumed to be a weight loss treatment.
It is aimed at people who live an active and healthy lifestyle and require a
treatment aiming at certain parts of their body and not the entire body.
Here are some important things you should know about
CoolSculpting.
1.
CoolSculpting cannot be used to
improve your skin laxity. If you skin is lose, this treatment
will not help it, in fact, removing fat cells may cause more sagging of skin.
2.
It is one hour procedure for
one part of your body. In case, of fat cells removal from the arms, it will
take two hours targeting each arm separately.
3.
This procedure is not
pain-free, as marketed and can be very uncomfortable during the first five to
fifteen minutes of the procedure when vacuum grabs on
to your fat and skin.
4.
The treated area appears to be
like a stick of butter or a piece of salmon underneath your skin, right after
the treatment. It gets weirder as this can easily be massaged down.
5.
To achieve a reduction of
20-25% fat from a body part only one treatment is required but if you opt for
more, an additional 20-25% fat reduction can be observed each time, from that
area of your body.
6.
In a number of cases, the first
time of CoolSculpting may not give you visible and desired results and you
might need to go for the second round of CoolSculpting to get what you want.
7.
Recovery time may vary between
a few days to a few weeks depending on the patient and is accompanied with
soreness and a little bit of bruising, tingling and swelling.
8.
The complete results may take
up to a few months to show up varying between a few days to four to six months.
This again depends on from patient to patient.
It is important to keep following a healthy diet
and exercise regime even after the treatment. If you gain weight after
undergoing CoolSculpting, the fat cells already present in the area where the
procedure was performed may swell up and reduce the visibility of the results.
