Hi, this is Dr. Barry Lycka, Edmonton Cosmetic Dermatologist.  Today, we’re talking a little bit more about cellulite treatment and cellulite reduction. My 2 previous videos have already addressed a couple of things on cellulite.  We talked about cellulite misconceptions & myths and how they can be costly if you don’t know them.  Second thing we talked about is what is cellulite, so you can understand it extremely well.  Well, today we’re going to talk a little bit more about what treatments are available for cellulite, so you can understand what they’re doing and how they actually work in cellulite reduction and helping to get rid of cellulite.

Now, many of you have seen the show on TV called The Tyra Banks Show and Tyra Banks had a segment on it by Nivea, a cosmetic company who makes a cream called Good-bye Cellulite. They had a Good-bye Cellulite challenge on that show where they showed that cellulite could go away with diet and exercise, and the magic cream that they use. They asked four women suffering with cellulite to put it to the test for four weeks and then report back on how the cellulite reduction worked for them.

Well, do these work to reduce cellulite?  Well, all these things help, but only temporarily.  You see, the cream that’s used and the other similar creams used, all they do is induce a little bit of swelling in the skin, so the skin looks more uniform.  It looks more textured.  It looks better.  But it doesn’t get rid of the main problems that cause cellulite.

So, what else can be used?

Well, a time-honored treatment for cellulite treatment is massage.  Massage helps to get rid of some of the swelling we see in cellulite and the cellulite actually looks better.  So, a very good massage, known as lymphatic massage can actually get rid of cellulite.  Any massage therapist worth her salt knows what massage therapy is all about and what lymphatic massage is.  So, if you talk to your massage therapist, ask them this because this can help a little bit.

Another treatment that we have used for quite a while is something called Endermologie.  Endermologie is a suction-assisted massage that’s being used for a long period of time.  It’s made by a company called Endermologie LPG in France and it was invented a number of years ago to help with difficult skin problems.  In fact, its first use was in burn scars because the burn scars got softer and subtler and worked better, so a person had less of a problem with that.  But, they also noticed that cellulite went away with it, so one of the main treatments it is used for now is for cellulite.  Now, it works beautifully short-term, but it doesn’t work long-term.

Another company called Cynosure also makes something called Smooth Shapes that help, so the two together worked like hand and glove.

So the thing, what I’d like you to know was there was a couple of other treatments.  Some people use energy to help getting rid of these in the way of lasers and we’ve used a low-level energy laser called the Lapex 2000 that helps a bit, too.  But, all they do is help to take out some of the fat cells to make the fat cells leaky and some of the free fatty acids, which are found inside the fat cells actually go away with that, and we find that that helps.  But unfortunately, it works only temporarily and a person needs maintenance for this to help keep it away.

Finally, there are some laser systems and heat systems that use RF and laser energy to help get rid of fat, but the problem is, again, they only target small amounts of the problem.  They don’t target it all.

Now, last thing that we have used and had some success with is Mesotherapy or LipoDissolve.  In this, we inject some chemicals that are a byproduct of lecithin and something that’s a byproduct of bile salts to help the body absorb some of the fat in this issue.  We find this works by helping causing some fibrosis.  Unfortunately, this doesn’t work in everybody.  There is some pain and some swelling that occurs afterwards.  Unfortunately, as I said, it doesn’t work in everybody.

So, those are the means that we’ve used up until now (year 2011) for cellulite treatments.

In our last feature in this series, which I’ll be talking about next, I want you to understand we have a new cellulite treatment that really helps a lot of people to get rid of cellulite and I’d like to explain that to you as a very important part of getting rid of your cellulite.  I’m Dr. Barry Lycka.  I hope this serves you.

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