Laser Therapy

Due to the success of our Laser Treatment pilot program, we would like to know how best to expand our services. Please fill out this survey and enter the drawing to win a free 30 minute massage with our Neuromuscular Therapist, Evelyn Francisco.

Lasers provide an anti-aging platform that does not use neurotoxins, harsh chemicals on the surface of the skin, or injection of animal-based products or synthetics into the skin. It does not have a risk of infection at injection sites or allergic reaction to topical or injected substances.

Laser treatments are light-based therapies that heat deeper layers of skin to stimulate collagen formation, target dilated blood vessels, correct diffuse redness, reduce wrinkles, and more.

We use “Lunch Hour” procedures, which are non-invasive and have no down-time.

We offer Laser Services with a Cutera Laser to:

Tighten skin on your neck, jowls and underarms.

We offer Titan, which uses infrared light, to tighten the dermis, in a two session package.

Minimize redness, wrinkles and pore size and even your skin tone.

We offer Laser Genesis in a three session package or for individual touch-ups 

Lighten brown spots.

We offer IPL, or Intense Pulsed Light, which targets hyperpigmentation.

Erase small face veins and spider veins.

We offer Laser Vein Treatments, which deliver pulses of light to coagulate blood in the vessel, which is eventually reabsorbed, and blood is redirected to deeper veins–where it should be!

Treat toenail fungus.

We offer Laser Onchomycosis Treatments, which eradicate fungus in one or two treatments, avoiding the need for daily medication or daily applications of anti-fungal lacquer.

Little Things That Make a Big Difference: Balance Exercise

By Cathie Dunal, MD, MPH: One of my patients, a lovely lady of about 60–let’s call her Sandra–had a bad fall a few years ago. It was an icy February, and the sudden collision with a sidewalk took a toll on her back and neck. She went to physical therapy for several months.

This past spring, when Sandra came in for her annual visit, she had a big smile. “I didn’t fall once during the winter,” she beamed, “and I think I know why.” I took the bait: “Why?”

“Because I did the balance exercise you taught me all through the winter. I’m sure that’s why I didn’t fall. I had a few close calls.” She said that she told her friends about the balance training I’d prescribed, and they were doing the exercise too.

Balance exercise? It’s actually incredibly simple to do a tiny bit each day to maintain and improve your balance, and I’d like to share it with you, too:

Stand on one foot. This can be done at any time; I prefer to do it when I’m brushing my teeth–if you brush your teeth for two full minutes, as the dentist recommends, that’s a minute balancing on each foot. Twice a day.  Or while waiting for a pot to boil, a download to finish…during commercials.

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‘Stand Up to Cancer’ or Prevent It?

By Christina Pirello: Time and time again Americans are asked to donate to the cause of curing cancer. We write checks, walk, run, climb, row, swim, bike, host parties, buy t-shirts, bumper stickers, hats and pink-ribbons … everything in an attempt to stem the tide of this disease that threatens to swallow us alive.

Now we are being asked once again to “Stand Up to Cancer” and contribute money to research so that scientific dream teams can come up with a cure once and for all and “so no child ever gets cancer again,” according to their pitch.

Doe-eyed ingénues and established Hollywood heavyweights fill our television screens asking Americans to open their threadbare wallets and give more money for more research that seems to get us nowhere fast. Hundreds of millions of dollars ($4.8 billion actually, according to the National Cancer Institute) are poured into cancer research annually and yet still no cure.

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