Anne Chapas, M.D., assures me. “It’s been an incredibly stressful time for all of us.” A Manhattan dermatologist and the founder and medical director of Union Derm, Chapas relays that she and her colleagues have seen a rise in the number of patients seeking quick, noninvasive, no-downtime fixes. “I had a patient who joked to me the other day, ‘You know why they call it COVID-19?’ Because of the 19 pounds we’ve all gained.” Similar memes and tweets have been met with a backlash from the body-positivity community: Why are we worrying about a few extra pounds when so many of us have been sequestered at home, awash in worry, trying to keep ourselves and the people around us healthy and solvent? But the numbers don’t lie. “The uptick in the desire for body contouring has increased in my office by almost 400 percent,” confirms Harold Lancer, M.D., a cosmetic dermatologist based in Beverly Hills. Traditionally, these treatments have been focused on fat reduction through devices like CoolSculpting, which freezes fat cells to break them down, or truSculpt iD, which employs heat to the same end, explains Lancer. But newer devices—such as Emsculpt’s Neo, Cutera’s rebooted suite of truSculpt machines, and InMode’s new Evolve—add electrical-stimulation technology or high-intensity electromagnetic technology to tighten and tone muscles as well. Delivered through applicators attached to targeted areas, most commonly the abs, the flanks (a.k.a. the “love handles”), and the arms, these contractions work the muscles to provide definition.
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