Emerging Treatment Trends in the Medical Spa Setting

New and emerging treatment trends in medical spa settings are exciting. As medical spas grow in popularity and the competition among medical spas and day spas both for the dollars of clients becomes more fierce, the natural laws of business demand that business will do their best to offer more and more services to attract more clients. These treatments include the latest in cosmetic surgery trends and in proper, healthy skin care. Facial rejuvenation treatments to improve and sometimes eliminate skin conditions including wrinkles and acne scarring and especially precancerous growths.

Many adults are living with and putting up with skin conditions they do not like, and modern medical spas offer laser therapies, intense pulsed light therapies, chemical peels ranging from the light alpha hydroxyl acid peels to the deeper phenol peels, and microdermabrasion. For those who need it, dermabrasion, under the supervision of a physician, can also remove scarring and skin disfigurement that less invasive processes cannot remove.

Since a medical spa runs under the supervision of a full-time, on-site licensed physician or other health care professional and concentrates on wellness and medical procedures as well as the traditional day spa therapies and treatments, new therapies will come to the medical spa environment first, before some of them transition into the day spa environment. With that in mind, remember that the supervision of a physician ensures that only safe procedures are performed, and only by professionals.

Remember also that spas have always been on the cutting edge of new therapies since their earliest days. Homer and other classical Greeks indulged in the pleasures of spas under the name laconica, and the Romans created the thermae, a large scale spa under the Emperor Agrippa. These spa experiences included baths, oils, massage and exfoliation, considered high tech for their day, followed by a bracing swim in the frididarium. Today’s medical spas carry on this tradition

The United States became a center of spa activity and innovation from the mid 1900’s on, with Saratoga Springs in New York becoming the height of fashion. Franklin Roosevelt, when governor of New York in fact often went to Saratoga Springs, and later championed Warm Springs in Georgia.

Elizabeth Arden, in 1910, opened her well known spa, and many many more have opened since, with the 1980s and 1990’s seeing unprecedented growth, particularly in the area of medical spas. New treatments are a rule at medical spas, and can be found at all reputable medical spas.