Introduction to Women’s Wellness
Women face unique health concerns over their lifetime, some of which can even affect their overall health and wellness. Since the female physiology is extremely complex, it’s important to turn to someone who not only understands what you’re struggling with but also takes the time to identify your unique needs. At Aesthetics Medical Spa in Lansing, MI, we are providing women all over the area an opportunity to renew their most intimate area with our women’s wellness treatments using EmpowerRF. To learn more about this incredible range of treatments, please continue reading the information provided.
What is Women’s Wellness?
The innovative EmpowerRF device—featuring seven different treatment options, all within one platform—is beneficial for essentially every woman! Safe and effective, EmpowerRF delivers life-changing technologies for women’s wellness—treating a broad range of conditions such as urinary incontinence, vaginal dryness and pain, weak pelvic floor muscles, decreased sensation, and so much more.
This state-of-the-art technology uses a combination of radiofrequency (RF) and electrical muscle stimulation (EMS) to help you regain your self-confidence and improve your quality of life.
EmpowerRF offers safe and effective treatments for Women’s Health and Wellness and has been able to help so many women in Lansing treat the following conditions:
- Vaginal dryness (vaginal atrophy)
- Stress urinary incontinence (SUI)
- Urge incontinence or leaking
- Overactive bladder (frequent urination)
- Interrupted Sleep from Multiple Trips to the Bathroom
- Painful Intercourse
- Chronic UTI
- Recurrent Vaginal Infections (Yeast or Bacterial)
- Lichen Sclerosus
- Vaginal Laxity
- Pelvic Floor Weakness
- Decreased Vaginal Sensation
- Decreased Ability to Achieve Orgasm
- Vulvar or Vaginal Pain
- Episiotomy Pain
- Labial Laxity, Redundant or Crepey Vulvar Skin
- Labia Displeasure
- Lack of Confidence in Vaginal/Vulvar Appearance
- Fine lines and wrinkles, saggy skin, acne scars, unwanted scars
Types of Treatments
- Morpheus8: Morpheus8 is a minimally invasive treatment that combines microneedling with radiofrequency technology to target scars deep within the skin. By stimulating collagen production and remodeling tissue, Morpheus8 can effectively improve the appearance of scars, resulting in smoother and more even skin texture.
- Microneedling: Microneedling is a cosmetic procedure that involves using fine needles to create tiny punctures on the skin’s surface. This stimulates the skin’s natural healing process, promoting the production of collagen and elastin. As a result, microneedling can help reduce the appearance of scars by smoothing out the skin and improving its texture over time.
- Pico Laser: Pico laser is a cutting-edge technology used in dermatology and cosmetic procedures. It works by delivering ultra-short pulses of energy to the skin in stimulating collagen production. Pico laser treatments are highly effective for removing various types of scars, including acne scars and pigmentation issues, by breaking down unwanted pigments and promoting skin rejuvenation.
What are the Benefits of Women’s Wellness?
EmpowerRF patients are some of the happiest patients! Often, they have had to know every bathroom location and wear a pad when going out. After Empower RF treatments, they have better bladder control and get a better night’s sleep with less waking up to rush to the bathroom. For some women who have not been able to have sex for years due to pain and dryness, EmpowerRF can result in better sensation and comfort with intercourse.
Other benefits that our Lansing women’s wellness patients have experienced include:
Our women’s sexual health and wellness treatment options include:
Morpheus8V – A game changer in nonsurgical Feminine Rejuvenation for overall support, bladder control, and tightening for moderate symptoms.
Morpheus8V is a revolutionary non-surgical radiofrequency procedure performed in-office that delivers pulses of energy deep into the vaginal and vulvar tissue. Morpheus8V treats deep beneath the surface, improving collagen and elastin production and increasing the strength and thickness of feminine tissue. This leads to more support, lubrication, and elasticity of the vagina and vulva.
Morpheus8V helps resolve stress urinary incontinence and urge incontinence, making it the first device that can markedly improve the symptoms of mixed incontinence. Studies worldwide show proven benefits for more than 90% of treated women.
This state-of-the-art technology provides significant results for patients suffering from vaginal atrophy, stress urinary incontinence, urge incontinence, vaginal laxity, and crepey and loose vulvar appearance. Patients also report improvement in lichen sclerosis, interstitial cystitis symptoms, and vulvodynia.
Morpheus8V can be paired with FormaV or VTone to optimize your outcomes and added exosomes or creams help to accelerate healing. Our providers will help you choose the custom regimen that fits your needs.
FormaV – Helps with overall vaginal rejuvenation and bladder control for mild to moderate symptoms.
FormaV is a safe and effective treatment option to help resolve complaints like dryness, itching, laxity, and urinary incontinence. FormaV delivers radiofrequency energy into the tissue with a gentle sweeping motion throughout the vagina and the vulva. This procedure safely and effectively heats the tissue, which increases blood flow, collagen, and elastin throughout the treated area. It feels like a warm stone massage that leaves the vaginal tissue refreshed.
By heating the tissue, FormaV markedly relieves irritating vaginal and vulvar dryness and painful intercourse. By increasing collagen, FormaV leads to better support for the bladder and urethra, which helps reduce stress and urinary incontinence. This increase in tissue strength also improves the overall appearance of the vagina and vulva after childbirth and aging. By having less laxity, sensation is improved and enhances the ability to enjoy intercourse and orgasms again. Additionally, by improving the surface tissue of the vaginal canal, the overall vaginal pH improves, which decreases chronic UTIs and recurrent bacterial and yeast infections. With all these improvements, FormaV has high patient satisfaction!
There is minimal preparation and downtime for FormaV, and the treatment differs for each patient. Patient plans include various combinations of the EmpowerRF platform. Our experienced providers will create a custom plan that targets your specific issues. The FormaV device tip will be inserted into the vagina, where a warm sensation will be felt as the probe delivers radiofrequency comfortably.
Externally and internally, FormaV treats the vagina, vulva, clitoris, and labia by enhancing the skin’s structure and stimulating collagen. The treatment takes about 15-30 minutes, with a recommended number of three treatments for optimal results.
VTone – Better-than-Kegels muscle stimulation and pelvic floor strengthening. It’s like doing thousands of Kegel exercises in one VTone session!
Urinary incontinence is prevalent among women, particularly those who have experienced childbirth or pregnancy and women who are perimenopausal or in menopause. VTone is specifically designed to strengthen the muscles associated with incontinence and is FDA-cleared to improve all types of urinary incontinence, including stress urinary incontinence, urge incontinence, overflow incontinence, and function incontinence.
VTone utilizes electromagnetic energy to deliver thousands of supramaximal pelvic floor muscle contractions in a single session. These contractions re-educate the muscles of incontinent patients. This gentle, effective treatment series rehabilitates a woman’s pelvic floor muscles to improve her overall quality of life.
VTone is a painless treatment that requires no anesthesia. It has no downtime or recovery period and uses no injections, medication, or incisions.
This treatment:
- Tightens vaginal tissues
- Strengthens Kegel’s muscles
- Restores vaginal muscle tone
- Increases vaginal sensitivity
- Reduces urinary concerns
- Improves sexual pleasure
- Improves the appearance of lax opening after childbirth
Aviva – Safe and effective, this is the life-changing treatment for women who are self-conscious, unhappy with their genital appearance, or experience pain during intercourse due to laxity.
The two main reasons for having this procedure are discomfort and aesthetics. Many women feel discomfort or irritation when wearing tight clothing, having sexual relations, playing sports, or even just exercising. Other women just want a better or more youthful genital appearance. Many women are born with large or irregular labia, while others develop this condition after childbirth or with aging. Traditionally, labiaplasty surgery has been performed under general anesthesia in a hospital, requiring cutting away excess tissue, stitches, several days of recovery, post-surgical care, and a lengthy break from sexual activity.
Aviva is different because it uses RFAL (Radio-Frequency Assisted Lipolysis) to address some of the shortcomings associated with traditional surgical labiaplasty. The Aviva procedure dramatically reduces recovery time, uses a local anesthetic, and requires no stitches. It’s easy, safe, has a quick return to activities, and gives women back peace of mind about their genital appearance.
Aviva is a safe and effective treatment, but it is different because it uses RFAL (Radio-Frequency Assisted Lipolysis) to address some of the shortcomings associated with traditional surgical labiaplasty. Our team uses energy internally and externally, which tightens skin layers and removes unwanted bulky tissue, resulting in a more youthful, tighter appearance.
Until Aviva, no other non-surgical solutions could dramatically reduce the size of the labia. Performed by Dr. Ronan under local anesthesia, Aviva permanently extracts unwanted thickness through pinpoint introduction sites and then tightens and shrinks the tissue using radiofrequency power. Because tissue is immediately eliminated, it is a true form of reduction. The results are permanent, and most patients immediately return to work without restriction.
Patients usually only require one treatment per area. Aviva improves over a period of a few months, and the full extent of results takes three to six months to be visible.
Morpheus8 and Morpheus8 body –Used on any areas that can benefit from resurfacing and subdermal renewal.
Morpheus8 and Morpheus8 Body are radio frequency fractional skin treatments that stimulate collagen production of the underlying layers of the dermis. By targeting the deeper layers of the skin, tissues of the face and body can be remodeled to reveal a more radiant and youthful appearance. The treatment is minimally invasive, using a matrix of micro pins to renew the deeper layers of the skin with almost no patient downtime.
Morpheus8 can be used in any area that benefits from resurfacing and subdermal renewal. Treatment areas include the face and periorbital area.
Morpheus8 Body is a deeper treatment for firming loose, sagging, and aging skin. It can improve dimpling and crepey skin texture and all of the other nightmare skin issues that we face as we age or lose weight, especially in the abdomen, thighs, legs, and buttocks.
Our practitioners will recommend the optimal number of sessions based on your personal objectives. Treatment times and frequency will be specifically tailored to obtain the optimal results.
Visible results can be seen within a few days, but typically, the most noticeable results appear after three weeks. Improvements continue up to three months after treatment.
Patients should moisturize the treatment area and avoid direct sun exposure. They should also use broad-spectrum sunscreen every day. In addition to reducing the risk of skin cancer, sunscreens also slow the aging process. Since patient downtime is minimal, makeup can be applied two days after the treatment.
First Sixth HRT – Hormone balancing with hormone replacement therapy and vaginal creams. Helps make the most of your EmpowerRF results.
Who are the Best Candidates for Women’s Wellness?
Any woman with vaginal dryness, pain with intercourse, stress urinary incontinence, overactive bladder, vaginal laxity, chronic vaginal infections, or lichen sclerosus (LS) is an excellent candidate for women’s wellness treatments in Lansing. It can also benefit women desiring aesthetic enhancement by replacing sagging or crepey skin with a more youthful, better-toned tissue. It also offers improvement for women (and their partners) desiring a boost in sensation with intercourse.
What’s the First Step?
You’ll come in for a confidential consultation with one of our vaginal rejuvenation experts to assess the symptoms you’re experiencing and develop a customized plan to improve your intimacy, bladder control, and additional vaginal concerns.
What to Expect on the Day of a Women’s Wellness Treatment
Most treatments need very little preparation, have no downtime, and can be performed on the same day. On the day of treatment, please arrive 10-15 minutes early to fill out any necessarypaperwork.
Allow approximately 45 minutes for VTone, 30 minutes for FormaV, and 60 minutes for Morpheus8V. If Morpheus8V is recommended, a topical anesthetic is applied to make the treatment completely tolerable. It’s safe for you to drive yourself to and from all of your treatments.
Women’s Wellness Recovery
There are very few or no restrictions for most EmpowerRF treatments. With Morpheus8V, we recommend avoiding intercourse, pelvic exams, and tampons for two to three days and keeping the area moist.
Most patients will note results after the first treatment and continued improvement after the complete series of treatments. To maintain optimal results, annual maintenance treatments are highly recommended.
How Much Do Women’s Wellness Treatments Cost in Lansing, MI?
The cost of Women’s Wellness in Lansing will vary on numerous factors, primarily the EmpowerRF option utilized and the extent of the treatment. The best way to learn the total amount for your woman’s wellness treatment is to come in for a consultation and have your plan created.
Why choose Aesthetics MedSpa?
Dr. Arthur Ronan, DO, is a board-certified family physician who has been practicing in Lansing, MI, for over twenty years and has earned a reputation for personalized and compassionate patient care. In addition to his family medicine practice, Dr. Ronan recognized the importance of holistic well-being and embarked on a mission to blend the best of traditional medicine.
With cutting-edge wellness techniques. This vision led him to establish and lead a thriving medical spa in Lansing, where he offers a range of aesthetic and rejuvenation services. Dr. Ronan’s passion for patient education and transparent healthcare practices set him apart as a trusted healthcare leader, bridging the gap between medicine and wellness in the Lansing community.
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If any aspect of your womanhood is causing you distress or discomfort, or even if you just want to feel like your younger self again, the women’s wellness treatments we offer to our Langsing patients can make some incredible changes in your life. To learn more about each treatment and which one would best suit your needs, please contact Aesthetics MedSpa today! You can call us at (517) 574-4655 or request an appointment with our online form and a member of our team will be in touch with you.
The Statics
Stress Urinary Incontinence (SUI)
- Approximately 1 out of 3 women over the age of 45 and 1 out of every two women over the age of 65 have stress urinary incontinence.
- Urinary incontinence increases with age.
- Over half of women with SUI also have an Overactive Bladder.
Sexual Dysfunction
- A recent study found that some form of female sexual dysfunction was reported in 58% of mothers one year after childbirth. The main complaints included insufficient lubrication, abnormal vaginal sensation, vaginal laxity, vaginal tightness, pain with intercourse, and incontinence during intercourse.
- For 1 in 10 women, sex hurts—every time. A new study, which surveyed nearly 7,000 British women aged 16 to 74, found that women in their late 50s and early 60s were most likely to experience pain during sex, followed by women aged 16 to 24.
- A recent study found that some form of female sexual dysfunction was reported in 58% of mothers one year after childbirth. The main complaints included insufficient lubrication, abnormal vaginal sensation, vaginal laxity, vaginal tightness, pain with intercourse, and incontinence during intercourse.
- For 1 in 10 women, sex hurts—every time. A new study, which surveyed nearly 7,000 British women aged 16 to 74, found that women in their late 50s and early 60s were most likely to experience pain during sex, followed by women aged 16 to 24.
Sources: The National Association for Continence, Urology Care Foundation,
US National Library of Medicine, DOI.org
Overactive Bladder (OAB)
- OAB affects an estimated 33 million people in the U.S., and half of these people are struggling with Urge Urinary Incontinence when leakage occurs.
- Nocturia is quite common among women. Studies and surveys have found that 76% of women over 40 report getting up to go to the bathroom at least once per night. About one-third of adults over 30 make two or more nightly bathroom trips.
- Contrary to what many think, an overactive bladder is NOT a normal part of getting older and isn’t something you should think you have to live with. It’s an actual medical condition that deserves treatment.
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“ I have been seeing Dr. Ronan for Botox for migraines for years. Due to my Moyamoya disease nothing takes my pain away completely but the injections do help. He is great, and his staff is very nice. He is also my husband’s general practitioner. He is a wonderful doctor and a very nice person.”
- Lisa K.
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