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Case study · Body Treatments
Reducing a pocket on the upper arm
Six sessions on the upper arms for a soft pocket, with the skin laxity flagged up front as out of scope and a surgical referral offered instead.
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How the course ran
She had stopped wearing anything sleeveless and asked whether the upper arms could be tightened.
They could be reduced, which is not the same word. There were two things going on: a soft pocket on the back of the arm, which this treatment addresses, and mild skin laxity, which it does not. We told her that if the laxity was what actually bothered her she would be disappointed at twelve weeks, and gave her the option of not booking.
She booked for the pocket. Six sessions two weeks apart on both arms, photographed each time at the same distance with the arm in the same position, because arm photographs are trivially easy to flatter with a change of angle.
The photograph is at twelve weeks. The outline of the upper arm is a little straighter. The skin quality is unchanged, exactly as we said it would be.
Individual results vary. If loose skin rather than volume is the main concern, this is the wrong treatment, and a surgical opinion is the honest referral rather than a course of six.
Individual results vary
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