The car boxy therapy the rescue of sagging skin

The car boxy therapy is an ancient technique used for reoxy genation damaged tissues (skin ulcer, peripheral vascular ...). Its indications have now expanded to new issues purely aesthetic: the sagging skin. Update on car boxy therapy and indications with Dr. Catherine Goursac *, aesthetic doctor.

What is car boxy therapy?

Dr. Catherine Goursac: The car boxy therapy is a technique used for many years. By 1930, it was proposed to cure the problems of treating gangrene, arterial and venous disorders. Since then it has grown and now gives very good results against sagging skin.

Its principle is very simple and based on the injection of CO2 (carbon dioxide) gas, which will improve the micro circulation and skin slackening. The CO2 acts in two ways: it causes a fairly sudden mechanical distension which will act on the sagging skin and significantly improves the oxygenation of cells. As doped, the skin cells become more efficient (production of collagen, elastic fibers ...).

Depending on the desired effect, the CO2 can be injected at two different depths in the skin, the dermis, or in the hypodermis to treat cellulite such as the CO2 is going to burst the fat cells.

What are the areas you treat classically car boxy therapy?

Dr. Catherine Goursac: We use many car boxy therapy to treat the inner arm and thigh, but also the neck, chest and above the oval of the face where the result is visible more quickly than other areas. Attention skin departure should not be completely released. It still have some potential to react with CO2 and get a real skin retraction.

In some people, the CO2 can influence the skin, but also the underlying muscle. So sometimes the dimples are enhanced and the lips can be redisplayed. In other words, oxygen can also affect the muscles in more depth.

We also obtained interesting results on rings in sepia: it not only improves the sagging skin, but also the blood supply, and tends to brighten the complexion.

Stretch marks may be amenable to such treatment, but it takes time because you can not treat a small area at a time, the size of a hand for example. Please note that although the car boxy therapy can not get rid of stretch marks. However, we can significantly reduce their width after a few sessions and get the color of the skin. It gets to the final skin whose appearance is more homogeneous.