D’Arsonval currents and cryolifting: hardware methods for restoring microcirculation

About methods for increasing skin tone, improving its texture and smoothing wrinkles

2025-05-12

Modern cosmetology and aesthetic medicine have a wide range of hardware techniques in their arsenal. Each technique is based on one of the numerous physical factors: electromagnetic or ultrasonic waves, temperature or mechanical influences, and sometimes a combination of these factors. All of them are aimed at stimulating the structural components of the skin, primarily stimulating fibroblasts and increasing the production of collagen and elastin.

However, to achieve this goal and obtain all these effects – increasing tone, improving skin structure and rejuvenation – it is necessary to restore adequate blood flow and enhance microcirculation in tissues, which is one of the main conditions for the normal functioning of the skin.

To achieve this goal, both long-known methods (d'Arsonval currents, phonophoresis) and more modern ones (vacuum massage and lymphatic drainage, radio wave energy, local cryotherapy) are used.

The most common method is d’Arsonval currents, or d’Arsonvalization. This is the effect of high-voltage alternating current on the human body through a gas-filled glass electrode. The effect is achieved by pulsed alternating sinusoidal currents of high frequency (110-400 kHz), high voltage (about 20 kW), but low power (up to 100-200 mA).

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