How To Lose Body Fat With Non Invasive Ultrasound

Get high definition body sculpting results with non invasive, low risk ultrasound body fat reduction treatments. Ultrasound gives you a safe low cost high tech non surgical option for your body shape goals.
Losing Stomach Fat Without The Risk Of Cosmetic Surgery. Controlled energy

ultrasound treatment devices don't require that you undergo exercise or diet programs in order to qualify for body fat reducing treatments. So long as you're healthy, not pregnant, not undergoing any radical chemo therapy medication, and not morbidly obese, then you should likely qualify as a candidate for the next generation of ultrasound body fat reducing treatments.
By selecting ultrasound, you avoid the medical risks associated with surgery such as infection, bleeding, healing abnormalities, bruising, down time from family and work and so on. For example, how to lose fat on lower stomach areas can be successfully treated using ultrasound, where high impact yet controlled energy is targeted just below the skin where fat cells reside. Think of ultrasound just like you would the hand held devices used on the pregnant mother's stomach in order to view the fetus.

The "Technical" Side Of Ultrasound: How To Lose Face Fat. Face fat deposits act as padding, provide shape and texture to your looks and skin, and help define your appearance. In some people, aging brings sagging skin (laxity) as well as a diminishing in face fat deposits.
Results? A gaunt, hollow sad look which may not at all reflect how you actually feel. For a larger percentage of people, how to lose fat in your face is the challenge. Exercise and diet…? Turn to ultrasound, which can literally liquefy discrete amounts of face fat cells, which are then naturally absorbed and eliminated by your body.
Ultrasound works by directing carefully calibrated energy into your skin. The depth of penetration can be clearly defined, as well as the energy level. Body fat cells, lighter and less complex in terms of their structure when compared to nearby connective tissue or nerve fiber, "absorb" the ultrasound energy, whereas the more complex nearby cells "reflect" ultrasound and are not impacted. And so the bad guys, body fat cells such as face fat cells, can be targeted for treatment without risk to important nearby tissues and nerve fiber. Emulsified or liquid fat can either be naturally expelled by your body, or a tiny suctioning cannula can safely withdraw the liquid fat during your ultrasound treatment.
Ultrasound's Best Candidates To Lose Body Fat. Think of ultrasound in terms of body contouring in places where you have small to medium amounts of fat built up…or you're trying to reduce fat from hard-to-reach areas such as behind the knees, under your bra line, around your neck and chin, or you want to lose arm fat. Small amounts of body fat can be "disturbed" or even "vibrated" into break-down for body absorption. However, when even modest amounts of fat are being targeted such as inner thigh fat deposits, then you'll likely need some sort of invasive probe in order to suction out these larger volumes of body fat.
Treatments Timetable And How Much Body Fat You Can Remove. Ultrasound treatments will likely be monthly for you. Results vary, but you might expect up to several pounds of localized fat deposits to be removed. By comparison, the more aggressive surgical procedure, liposuction, can remove up to 9 pounds of fatty tissue.
Costs. Similar to liposuction treatment costs, ultrasound body fat treatments depend entirely on your body…how many treatment locations…how much fat is deposited…your age, health, diet, exercise, genetics… whether a combination of liposuction and ultrasound better suit your body image goals…Remember to ask for a full treatment plan and cost estimate, and see whether you qualify for any patient financing plans. Ultrasound body fat treatments are typically "elective" procedures, therefore will not be covered by conventional health insurance.
Health Risks To Know About. Despite high tech controller features, ultrasound theoretically can "burn" skin, blood vessels or nerves even though little evidence of this risk exists in the literature. Consult your doctor regarding any risk posed by dissolved fat somehow circulating within your body to create health risks, especially where no suctioning of the treatment area is planned. This risk of re-circulating fat has been carefully mitigated over the years with conventional liposuction due to the complementary fat-suctioning that occurs. Explore whether ultrasound and suctioning is right for you.

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Ultrasound Can Affect Fetal Brain Development

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Exposure to ultrasound can affect fetal brain development, a new study suggests. But researchers say the findings, in mice, should not discourage pregnant women from having ultrasound scans for medical reasons.
When pregnant mice were exposed to ultrasound, a small number of nerve cells in the developing brains of their fetuses failed to extend correctly in the cerebral cortex.
"Our study in mice does not mean that use of ultrasound on human fetuses for appropriate diagnostic and medical purposes should be abandoned,'' said lead researcher Pasko Rakic, chairman of the neurobiology department at Yale University School of Medicine.
However, he added in a telephone interview, women should avoid unnecessary ultrasound scans until more research has been done.
Dr. Joshua Copel, president-elect of the American Institute of Ultrasound Medicine, said his organization tries to discourage "entertainment'' ultrasound, but considers sonograms important when there is a medical benefit.
"Anytime we're doing an ultrasound we have to think of risk versus benefit. What clinical question are we trying to answer,'' Copel said in a telephone interview. "It may be very important to know the exact dating of pregnancy, it's certainly helpful to know the anatomy of the fetus, but we shouldn't be holding a transducer on mom's abdomen for hours and hours and hours.''
Rakic's paper said that while the effects of ultrasound in human brain development are not yet known, there are disorders thought to be the result of misplacement of brain cells during their development.
"These disorders range from mental retardation and childhood epilepsy to developmental dyslexia, autism spectrum disorders and schizophrenia,'' the researchers said.
Their report is in Tuesday's edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Early ultrasound scans are done to determine the exact week of the pregnancy and they are also done later to check for anatomical defects and other problems.
However, some expectant parents have sought scans to save as keepsakes even when they were not medically necessary, a practice the Food and Drug Administration discourages.
The Institute of Ultrasound Medicine was particularly concerned last year when it was announced that actor Tom Cruise had purchased an ultrasound machine for his pregnant fiancee, Katie Holmes, so they could do their own sonograms.
"Purchase of an ultrasound machine for private, at home use entails inappropriate operation of a prescription medical device designed for diagnostic use by a trained medical professional,'' the group said in a statement issued at the time.
Copel, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Yale University School of Medicine, did point out that there are large differences between scanning mice and scanning people.
For example, because of their size, the distance between the scanner and the fetus is larger in people than mice, which reduces the intensity of the ultrasound. In addition, he said, the density of the cranial bones in a human baby is more than that of a tiny mouse, which further reduces exposure to the scan.
The paper noted that the developmental period of these brain cells is much longer in humans than in mice, so that exposure would be a smaller percentage of their developmental period.
However, it also pointed out that brain cell development in people is more complex and there are more cells developing, which could increase the chances of some going astray.
In Rakic's study, pregnant mice were exposed to ultrasound for various amounts of time ranging from a total exposure of 5 minutes to 420 minutes. After the baby mice were born their brains were studied and compared with those of mice whose mothers had not been exposed to ultrasound.
The study of 335 mice concluded that in those whose mothers were exposed to a total of 30 minutes or more, "a small but statistically significant number'' of brain cells failed to grow into their proper position and remained scattered in incorrect parts of the brain. The number of affected cells increased with longer exposures.

By Randolph E. Schmid, Associated Pressposted: 07 August 2006 06:16 pm ET