Many people gained weight staying home during the pandemic lockdown, accounting for the recent surge in body-related treatments.

I recently had the opportunity to go with a friend to their Plastic Surgeon to inquire about getting skin tightening on their neck. I really learned a lot that day and thought I would come back and do some more research on this growing trend. Here is what I've learned.

Body shaping, skin tightening, and cellulite reduction treatments have achieved mainstream acceptance around the world. Advanced non-surgical technologies offer safer treatments, with practitioners committed to using combination modalities to achieve specific outcomes. The new Energy-Based Body Shaping / Skin Tightening market study (Medical Insight, Irvine, Calif.) provides in-depth, up-to-date analyses of the factors contributing to this market’s impressive growth. Characterizing the increasing popularity of these treatment types:

• Less invasive technologies and products offer considerable quality and efficacy advances over earlier generations
• Better patient safety, and reduced treatment time, pain, and downtime
• Non-surgical options are much less expensive and attract patients that don’t want to go under the knife
• Procedures that appeal to the entire range of core and non-core physicians, as they are easier to perform, with almost half of all devices owned by non-core practitioners.

A rapidly changing patient demographic drives the body shaping and skin tightening market. The combined aging Baby Boomer and Generation X cohort remains this sector’s largest demographic, but Millennials and Generation Z’s represent new patients. These younger patients consider aesthetics as a normal part of their health and wellness regimens. The cellulite reduction segment commands a smaller demographic among mostly older women, but that market is also expanding because of new products with improved efficacy and results. All three treatment types are popular with more people because of the global acceptance of social media, which supports selfies and other photographic imagery.

Many people gained weight staying at home during the pandemic lockdown, accounting for the recent surge in body-related treatments. They also watched themselves for hours at a time on video calls. When aesthetic providers reopened, they started booking treatments. This surge has continued in 2021 and appears to be sustainable.

Through 2025, the aesthetic industry expects the overall market to expand by 16.6% per year, driven by rising consumer interest in these procedures.

The current global market for all body shaping and skin tightening device platforms and disposables approached $1.3 billion in 2020. Through 2025, we expect the overall market to expand by 16.6% per year, driven by rising consumer interest in these procedures. This reflects the impact of the pandemic in 2020.

Energy-Based Body Shaping / Skin Tightening also includes detailed product tables and reports on emerging technologies, global sales and market forecasts, sales trends, procedure volume, and intelligence gathered from exclusive interviews with product manufacturers, industry analysts, and leading physicians.

Overall, in the body shaping, skin tightening, and cellulite reduction segment, New technologies are expanding the marketplace and consumers, especially the Millennials and younger, are smart and see the improvements in techniques and technologies.

? 2021 Medical Insight, Inc.