What Happens If You Overdo Radio-Frequency? Expected Benefits and Recommended Treatments

Do you know radio-frequency, popular for promising beautiful skin and slimming benefits? Radio-frequency is an electromagnetic wave originally used in the medical field. It also exists in everyday life, and because it causes no harm in treatment, its popularity keeps growing.

This article details the benefits and recommended frequency of radio-frequency treatment. We also introduce treatments that promise even greater effect when combined with radio-frequency — do use it as a reference.

What Is Radio-Frequency?

Radio-frequency refers to electromagnetic waves with frequencies of 30–300 MHz. Their wavelengths span a wide range from one meter to a hundred kilometers, and the frequencies vary widely too — but they are also emitted routinely by everyday sources like televisions and infrared devices, and are said to cause little harm to the body. Beauty machines often rely on cell-destroying mechanisms, but radio-frequency achieves its effects through warming with heat.

What Benefits Can You Expect from Radio-Frequency?

What exactly does warming with radio-frequency accomplish?

The mechanism is this: the electromagnetic waves vibrate the water and molecules in the body, generating heat. As heat is generated, body temperature rises, blood and lymph flow are promoted, and metabolism climbs.

Here are three concrete benefits.

Tightening the Skin and Improving Sagging

Radio-frequency is popular because it promises not only slimming but aging-care benefits as well.

Used on the face, it promotes the production of collagen — essential to beauty — and improvements in wrinkles and sagging, plus a smaller-face effect, can be expected. It is also recommended for tightening skin left loose by dieting.

Burning Fat and Resolving Cellulite

Radio-frequency reaches deep into the body and can be expected to promote the breakdown and burning of hardened fat. Hardened fat combines with waste to form cellulite. With radio-frequency, heat breaks down fat and makes it easier to burn. As the broken-down fat is also freed from its bond with waste, improvement in cellulite can be expected. It also promotes blood and lymph flow, so the broken-down fat flows out more readily and expulsion efficiency improves.

Improving Sensitivity to Cold and Raising Metabolism

When the human body is warmed, blood vessels dilate and circulation improves; as more energy is consumed to keep the blood moving, body temperature naturally rises. The higher temperature in turn keeps the vessels dilated, connecting to further improved circulation.

A one-degree rise in body temperature is said to raise basal metabolism by roughly 12–13%. If your normal temperature is in the 35°C range, simply reaching the 36°C range means your metabolism has risen. And higher metabolism brings the added advantage of being harder to gain weight.

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How Often Should You Get Radio-Frequency Treatment?

The optimal pace for radio-frequency is roughly ten sessions over three months — in other words, about three sessions a month, or one every two weeks.

Even one session can be effective, but treating at the right intervals sustains long-term effects and leads to further gains in metabolism and relief from coldness.

After your first session, it’s a good idea to gauge the results and how your skin responds, and find the frequency that suits you.

What Happens If You Overdo Radio-Frequency?

Radio-frequency promises beauty benefits, but overdoing it risks backfiring. Everything has an appropriate frequency and amount.

Overdoing radio-frequency places a heavier burden on the skin. And because it generates heat, it can lead to noticeable dryness or even a risk of burns.

It is also one factor that can trigger allergic symptoms. Because the part of the device that contacts the skin is metal, prolonged or repeated exposure over time has, in some cases, triggered a metal allergy.

For Radio-Frequency, KADOMORI Is the Recommendation

At KADOMORI, you can receive radio-frequency treatment both for a smaller face and for body-making. The Face-Sculpting Facial ＜Radio-Frequency＞ in particular delivers concentrated care for the facial concerns that bother you. In the next section, we detail the benefits you can expect and the treatment flow.

Face-Sculpting Facial ＜Radio-Frequency＞

Warmth of about 42°C loosens stiffened muscles. The heat-tightening effect promises a smaller face, lifting, and fat burning, and by promoting collagen production, anti-aging benefits can be expected too.

Let’s look at the flow of the course.

First, our staff conduct a detailed counseling session about your concerns and any discomfort.

We cleanse the skin to make it clean, then apply the radio-frequency device. The key point is that you can relax in the pleasant warmth throughout.

Finally, we finish with skin care to condition your skin. Our staff also offer home-care advice and information about your next visit, so you can head home feeling reassured.

The Face-Sculpting Facial is recommended for those concerned about facial sagging, dullness, wrinkles, or jaw prominence, and for anyone who wants a treatment with a smaller-face effect.

Treatments Recommended in Combination

KADOMORI offers an abundant selection of treatments that pair well together. Here we introduce three that promise even greater effect when combined with the Face-Sculpting Facial.

Do try them for a more satisfying treatment experience.

KADOMORI-Style Facial Correction

Facial correction that draws on KADOMORI’s many years of experience treating the facial skeleton, and is recommended by cosmetic surgery doctors as well.

Because it corrects facial distortion by working on the bone structure, it is recommended for those with left–right asymmetry or jaw joint issues. Facial measurements are also taken before and after, so you can see exactly how much effect was achieved.

Body-Sculpting Remake ＜Cavitation＞

A treatment that promises slimming benefits by using fat-cell-destroying ultrasound to melt fat and put it in a state where it is more easily expelled. It can also be expected to help with cellulite, which is notoriously difficult to resolve. Since the fat remains in an easily expelled state, the effect is sustained — and home care like half-body baths, exercise, and massage after treatment makes the results easier to feel.

Recommended for those who want spot slimming, those with a slowed metabolism, or those concerned about cellulite.

Body-Sculpting Remake ＜Synchro Wave＞

A fully hands-on treatment performed while passing KADOMORI’s original current — the Synchro Wave — through the body. With the Synchro Wave flowing through the practitioner’s hands, this treatment is a cutting-edge body-remake technique available only at KADOMORI.

Because it is done entirely by hand, meticulous, detailed body care is possible. Recommended for those who want to refine their body line or are concerned about puffiness.

Curious About Radio-Frequency? Consult KADOMORI!

Radio-frequency is a beauty treatment that promises benefits for both slimming and beautiful skin. And because it generates heat through electromagnetic waves, there is no pain — you can receive treatment while enjoying a pleasant warmth, which is one of its real appeals.

Many people can feel its effects after a single session. However, since permanent results cannot be expected, treatment must be repeated at appropriate intervals. The ideal frequency — three times a month, once every two weeks, or otherwise — varies from person to person. Take your own skin’s condition and how long the effects last into account, and receive treatment at the frequency that best suits you with the least burden.

KADOMORI also offers an abundant selection of treatments recommended in combination with radio-frequency. The Body-Sculpting Remake ＜Synchro Wave＞ in particular is a cutting-edge treatment available only at KADOMORI. We are also happy to discuss treatments beyond radio-frequency, so please consult KADOMORI.