Medical Spas Review

NEW RF - Based Device Dials in Multiple Frequencies

New RF- Based Device Dials in Multiple Frequencies

by Daniele Henkel

Daniele Henkel Inc, located in Montreal, Québec, recently launched its Health Canada approved multifrequency and vacuum therapy bipolar RF device, the ReactionTM by Viora, at the Exclusive Industry Innovation Premiere, in Toronto in April 2010.

The Reaction device is intended for treating cellulite, as well as body contouring and skin tightening. The unit offers a multiple-frequency approach to RF treatments, based on Viora’s CORETM technology (Channelling Optimized RF Energy).

Viora CEO Josef Luzon explains the reason for developing the CORE Technology.

“Most of the systems out there are working with one frequency”, he says. “Working with one frequency has limitations. We came up with a technology that works with three frequencies in four different modes. This allows for better control of the depth of penetration”, he adds.
This technology lets physicians work in three distinct frequencies suitable for deep, middle, and superficial treatments -0.8 MHz, 1.7 MHz, and 2.45 MHz. In addition, the device offers a fourth mode that can incorporate all three frequencies at the same time.

An indication of the unit’s practical application, is the 0.8 MHz frequency that penetrates up to 18.6mm for body contouring (with vacuum) and up to 7.2mm  for skin-tightening applications.

In a recent study, patients who underwent a skin-tightening treatment demonstrated an 81% improvement in wrinkles and skin laxity.
A similar study evaluated the performance of CORETM technology for cellulite reduction. Patients showed a 55% improvement in the appearance of cellulite.

In addition to the four frequencies and four levels of vacuum (up to 130 joules -j/cm3) the ReactionTM offers three lightweight treatment heads that provide different treatments for the face and body and will treat all varieties of skin, with no recovery time necessary for patients.
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Reaction to the Reaction
“The nice thing about the system is that I can use it for the multiple different treatments”, says Matthew Schulman, MD, a private practice doctor in New York City. “I use it for cellulite reduction, fat reduction, and for skin tightening. Before I had this technology, I usually needed to use two, sometimes three separate systems in order to be able to accomplish these same things. We know that if you are trying to tighten the skin, you want to direct the energy toward the dermis where the elastin and collagen is”, Schulman continues. “If I’m trying to treat cellulite, I want to go deeper. I want to make that energy go beneath the skin to where the subcutaneous fat is, and if I’m trying to physically reduce the amount of fat and to give what is termed a circumferential reduction –butt, hips, thighs- I can (go) even deeper in order to target the actual fat cells”.

Does his use of the ReactionTM make any other techniques obsolete? “Well, I’m still a surgeon”, he says.

However, he says that, for whatever reason, some patients do not want surgery, cannot afford surgery, are afraid of anesthesia, or cannot take the time off from work, he can offer them a nonsurgical way of tightening the skin of the face and the neck. “But I tell them from the start that it certainly won’t give them the result of a face lift, but it can give them considerable improvement”.