Aesthetic Acupuncture

Aesthetic acupuncture, David Duchovny

Wrinkles, Fine Lines and Expression Lines

Skin Remodeling through Aesthetic Acupuncture✨

Also called acupuncture lifting, aesthetic acupuncture allows, among other things, the activation of collagen (type III) fiber integration into the cutaneous matrix, a phenomenon called remodeling - skin remodeling -

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In reality, microneedling modulates cellular proliferation. The effect reaches its maximum peak 2 months following treatment. However, skin improvement begins to be noticeable within 2 to 4 weeks following the procedure. Thereafter, typical follow-up in aesthetic acupuncture is generally performed over 6 treatments per year, or 1 treatment every 2 weeks for 3 months. Thus, those who wish to continuously maximize the treatment effect can continue with 1 treatment per month throughout the year, for a total of 15 treatments per year.

Aesthetic acupuncture, Kim Kardashian

Microneedling: Mechanisms of Aesthetic Acupuncture

Particularly, the plum blossom hammer with electrical stimulation, gua sha (scraping), cupping (ventouses), the yuko roller, or multiple aesthetic acupuncture needles coupled with electrostimulation represent the tools of superficial acupuncture. They are used to release the surface, expel heat, improve the circulation of bioelectricity, blood and interstitial fluids. In short, the mechanisms of microneedling/plum blossom hammer under electrical stimulation would be summarized by the action of electrical signals that induce modulation of cellular proliferation.

Thus, when a metallic needle enters in a pulsed manner into the electrolyte of interstitial fluid, a short-circuit of endogenous electrical fields occurs, for a brief period (fractions of seconds). First, the microtrauma of punctures (200 needles/cm² on the plum blossom hammer microneedling type) creates a moderate inflammatory response, i.e. through the release of bradykinins and histamines by mast cells. Since the radius of microneedling needles (2–3 μm) is small enough to not create the expected bleeding of a hypodermic needle, the plum blossom hammer/acupuncture needles only tear the capillaries.

Consequent to tissue microtrauma, the Na+-K+ pump activates to restore electrical potentials inside and outside cells. The ATPase, a transmembrane protein, brings positively charged Na into the interstitial electrolyte and retrieves positively charged K to transport it into the cell. The charging and discharging occur in 2-3 milliseconds. Necessarily, only cells in proximity to the microtraumas are affected. Once the transepithelial potential is restored, the activated cells consequently return to their resting potential.

Electrotaxis

Precisely through the repetition of needle penetrations and pulsations induced on them, cells are momentarily continuously activated: the interstitial fluid then becomes an electrolyte polarized by an electromagnetic field. Incidentally, the electromagnetic field would stimulate gene expression in surrounding cells. The cellular environment is then under the influence of an epigenetic factor: electrotaxis of cells surrounding tissues traumatized by micropunctures. This would lead to an increase in the motility of epithelial and endothelial cells, subsequent to genetic expression of growth factors facilitating tissue healing. Electrotaxis would necessarily improve cellular motility but also cellular communication. (1)

Mesenchymal Stem Cells

In a study conducted by the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs in 2017, the reintroduction into circulation of mesenchymal stem cells lodged in the bone marrow following electroacupuncture treatment was highlighted. Clearly, this release of stem cells into the bloodstream has been demonstrated in humans, rats, mice, and horses. It is now known that stem cells, increasingly studied for their various clinical applications, would have an important role to play in the regeneration of living tissues. (2)

Aesthetic acupuncture, Lady Gaga

Acne, Rosacea, Eczema and Psoriasis

Now, beyond its aesthetic applications, acupuncture can also act at other levels on skin health. Acupuncture has the potential to provide very interesting relief for most inflammatory-type conditions. In fact, acupuncture has an important anti-inflammatory effect and acupuncture modulates purinergic signaling, notably linked to its action at the level of adenosine. (3)

Post-Surgical Scars and Recovery from Surgical Procedures

Reduce scar fibrosis by improving blood circulation through local treatments of your scars.

Accelerate healing of skin tissues injured by surgery, burns, cuts and abrasions by reducing inflammation and edema. Similarly, the same properties of aesthetic acupuncture treatment apply to scars of traumatic origin (skin wounds).

Scar Treatment by Microneedling ⚔️

Matrix metalloproteinases would play a vital role following micropuncture of scars, by degrading excessive fibrosis. Capillaries and fibroblasts then migrate into scar tissue. Collagen fibers (type III) integrate into the cutaneous matrix (phenomenon of remodeling). Finally, microneedling also stimulates angiogenesis: the formation of new invisible blood capillaries, which improves irrigation of skin tissues and contributes to delaying skin aging through aesthetic acupuncture.

REFERENCES

(1) Skin Cell Proliferation Stimulated by Microneedles, Horst Liebl et al., J Am Coll Clin Wound Spec. 2012 Mar; 4(1): 2–6. Published online 2012 Dec 25

(2) Study: Electroacupuncture eases pain through stem-cell release, March 16, 2017, Office of Research And Development, U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs

(3) Acupuncture-Induced Analgesia: A Neurobiological Basis in Purinergic Signaling, Yong Tang et al., The Neuroscientist, June 25, 2016