Clinical case: comparative results of using high-intensity focused electromagnetic stimulation with monopolar radio-wave lifting as monotherapy and in a combined protocol with botulinum toxin
- Authors: Sokolova A.V.1, Ilyina T.D.2, Chebotareva Y.Y.1,2
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Affiliations:
- Russian Medical Academy of Continuous Professional Education
- Estelab Clinic of Aesthetic Medicine
- Issue: Vol 32, No 5 (2025)
- Pages: 147-151
- Section: Clinical case
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/2073-4034/article/view/316505
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.18565/pharmateca.2025.5.147-151
- ID: 316505
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Abstract
Facial aging is a complex process that results from changes in several layers: skin, subcutaneous fat, superficial muscular aponeurotic system (SMAS), muscles and bone. Facial muscles tend to lose their tone at rest, which leads to a change in the position of tissues. This article presents clinical cases of successful use of a new device that combines the technologies of high-intensity focused electromagnetic stimulation (HIFES) and monopolar radio-wave lifting (RF) to improve skin elasticity and muscle tone, used as monotherapy (HIFES + RF) and as a complex effect (HIFES + RF and botulinum therapy); their safety, effectiveness and patient satisfaction are assessed.
The protocol in the form of a complex effect of HIFES, monopolar radio-wave lifting and botulinum toxin type A shows the highest results in comparison with a monoprocedure, and also allows for personalized cosmetology correction of involutional atrophy of the skin of the lower third of the face and neck.
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Anna V. Sokolova
Russian Medical Academy of Continuous Professional Education
Email: tanya.masiyanskaya@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7029-6597
Dr. Sci. (Med.), Professor, Department of Dermatovenereology and Cosmetology
Russian Federation, MoscowTatyana D. Ilyina
Estelab Clinic of Aesthetic Medicine
Author for correspondence.
Email: tanya.masiyanskaya@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-2092-1769
Dermatovenereologist, Cosmetologist
Russian Federation, MoscowYulia Yu. Chebotareva
Russian Medical Academy of Continuous Professional Education; Estelab Clinic of Aesthetic Medicine
Email: tanya.masiyanskaya@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-2820-3729
Chief Physician, Dermatovenereologist, Cosmetologist
Russian Federation, Moscow; MoscowReferences
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