Dr David Jack outlines the different non-surgical body contouring treatments available and the results that they aim to achieve.
The quest for the ideal body has been a long held mission of many people of all ages across the world. Frustrated with exercise and diet, which often require strict and almost obsessive rigidity, people frequently end up looking into other options to reduce areas of stubborn fat and cellulite. Over the past few decades, multiple treatment modalities have been developed in an attempt to cater to those looking to shift these stubborn inches, which won’t disappear with even the strictest of diets or the most intense training schedules. In the past, this would almost invariably mean a visit to a plastic surgeon for either excisional body contouring surgery (such as abdominoplasty, brachioplasty and other similar procedures) or traditional liposuction. Nowadays, there is a plethora of new devices and techniques, which offer a favourable alternative to surgery for these patients, both in…