The Science Behind Muscle Relaxation Treatments

Hi. Do anti-wrinkle treatments lift muscles?
The situation’s much more complex. Our facial muscles are like an orchestra, with all the instruments or muscles playing together at the same time, and creating a really nice system of complex facial expressions, and the ability to communicate with one another.

Some muscles will pull up, for example, frontalis lift the brows, some will pull down, like procerus and corrugator. Some will purse, like orbicularis oris. Some will pull down like DAO and platysma, and others will lift the mid face (zygomaticus major).

If we are looking at potential muscle treatments, we’re looking at what each muscle is contributing, what are the muscles around it doing? And if you impact one muscle, how are you going to impact the nearby muscles and the overall facial harmony or expression?

These are medical treatments, and the goal is not to eradicate movement or to freeze the face. If you want to achieve one result, for example, if you want to hear the violin a little more, you tune down the drums. If you want to lift the eyebrows you might treat or damp down the muscles that pull the brows down, allowing the lifting muscles to exert a stronger effect.

As a medical treatment, you want to see a medical practitioner who’s going to assess you face to face, and look at your individual anatomy, and muscle strength, and muscle movement, and decide if you’re suitable for treatment.

The goal is never to freeze or take away all expression. It’s to soften sometimes features that are perceived as negative, and to look at the complex way those muscles interact. So always stay safe and see a medical practitioner if you’re considering any aesthetic treatment.

Take care. Eithne

Видео The Science Behind Muscle Relaxation Treatments канала Dr Eithne Brenner Aesthetic Medicine