Electronic Muscle Stimulators (EMS) have recently been one of the options marketed for cellulite reduction and removal. Often, these devices are used to relax muscles, increase blood circulation, avoid blood clots, and rejuvenate muscles after a stroke. Using the EMS machines for all these procedures is FDA approved. However, while the EMS machines have been effective when it comes to the procedures just mentioned, it still remains to be seen if they have the same effectiveness when it comes to removing cellulite.
How it Works
EMS works by causing muscle contractions without need for signals sent by the brain. This simply means that your muscles contract and relax due to outside electrical impulses sent by the EMS to your body. The muscle groups are activated and triggered through the skin. It is actually "brainless exercise" since the brain is not required to do anything. Normally when we exercise it is our brains that send out these electrical impulses, ordering a muscle to move, to flex or to relax depending on what we want the muscle to do. With EMS on the other hand, one can be asleep, and need not exert any effort, while the machine does all the work by sending the electrical signals to your body.
When used in cellulite treatment most of the electrical impulses will be directed to the problem areas affected by cellulite. The often used claim of improved blood circulation for the area beneath the cellulite gives those marketing EMS as a cellulite remover, a reason to make the claim in the first place.
Viable cellulite treatment?
EMS as a viable cellulite treatment is doubtful. No in depth studies have been made with regards EMS used in this manner, and all that you have to rely on are manufacturer's claims which are often self-serving and have little basis. Furthermore, there has been no FDA approval for EMS as a viable cellulite treatment. The FDA further prohibits any marketing of EMS devices for body sculpting or body shaping. Cellulite treatment seems to fall under these categories.
Exercise on your own
Looking at all the claims being made, EMS can easily be substituted by working out and keeping in shape on your own. Why pay for an EMS treatment when you can go out and take a stroll, jog, do some aerobics, lift weights, or do any physical activity that catches your fancy. EMS is for the sedentary, and it promotes laziness. Real exercise can get you real results.
The marketing gurus have found another way to twist EMS as another means of cellulite removal. This has been done for various products so many times, that it no longer is surprising. A perfectly viable machine for other FDA approved treatments, EMS cannot be actively marketed as a cellulite removal tool. This is highly irresponsible, and should not be tolerated. To reiterate, the FDA prohibits the marketing of EMS devices for body sculpting and body shaping. This prohibition from the FDA should be enough to put would be customers of EMS treatments for cellulite on their toes. Undergoing and paying for EMS treatments would be unfair to the customer, as they would not get the results promised.
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