Emsella for Confidence and Strength
We’ve all heard about the importance of exercise, with the focus on cardio and weight training. For women, specifically, weight-bearing exercises are extremely vital to maintaining strength and muscle and bone health. For all the talk about exercising, we don’t often hear about smaller muscle groups, like the pelvic floor muscles, but they are just as important as your larger muscle groups.
Dr. Jill Wade, DDS, MAGD of Stonebriar Smile Design is more than just a dentist, and she treats her patients as a whole person rather than treating parts and pieces in isolation. Her most recent endeavor into whole-health wellness has expanded into noninvasive treatments by way of the Emsella chair, which her patients are dubbing “The Magic Chair.” The aim for this Texas-based dental wellness spa is to shift from a singular service focused on oral health to providing care for the entire person with specialized treatment offers.
The Magic Chair
The Emsella chair works to strengthen your pelvic floor muscles, which are responsible for supporting your bladder. “Many people are telling me that they are having constant daily issues with leaky bladders. And this is the only technique that I know is out there right now, other than surgery, that is helping with this particular situation,” reveals Dr. Wade. She admits that talking about incontinence with your dentist seems “a big stretch,” but she’s recognized this need due to having patients who’ve had difficulty sitting for 15–20 minutes to receive their dental treatments and making multiple visits to the bathroom.
“I’m pretty sure they’re a candidate for this ‘magic chair,’” says Dr. Wade. “Because that is an abnormally short period of time for you to be able to hold your bladder or what holds up underneath your bladder in order for you to be able to hold and not have to go to the bathroom.”
Beyond Dentistry: Total Wellness Revolution
Along with helping people concerned about their sleep quality and snoring, patients have admitted to getting up multiple times in the middle of the night to use the bathroom. Frequent visits to the bathroom are very disruptive to your sleep, and going in and out of deeper sleep is tied to weakened pelvic muscles.
“As you age,” explains Aurelia, “your bladder starts to loosen.” In conjunction, the muscles around your bladder—which Dr. Jill Wade likens to a hammock due to its shape—lose their form.”
We all start with a really new, tight “hammock,” and after years of sustaining the weight of a heavy bladder, it begins to sink, just as a hammock would when you climb in. For women, once “you start to have children, there’s a lot of weight down there, and it really does stretch that whole hip and muscular area,” states Dr. Wade, who practices out of Frisco, Texas. “Some of us, depending on how old we were when we had our children, I was 39 when I had the twins. Trust me, my muscles were kaput after that, all across the tummy, all in the bladder area.”
Incontinence: You’re Not the Only One Suffering
Dr. Wade began having conversations with women, realizing that many people experience leakage when laughing, coughing, and even during physical activities. This can be embarrassing at any age but even more so as an adult.
With that in mind, the Emsella chair, the newest addition to Stonebriar Smile Design, and its wide range of services and treatments, is a noninvasive solution to strengthening your “hammock,” your pelvic floor muscles. Using electromagnetic stimulation, “all you have to do is sit on it,” says Dr. Jill Wade. It sounds simple because it is. After properly positioning yourself on the Esmella chair, the vibration beneath targets those muscles and “brings in the blood into the muscles and allows for the healing and the tightening of that particular muscle, which is a hammock that goes from front to back,” explains Dr. Wade.
When those muscles tighten, they provide more adequate support for your bladder, and this applies to both men and women, as men are also prone to having issues with bladder leakage. In fact, “more adult diapers [are] being purchased now than all the brands of baby diapers,” attests Dr. Wade, who also has a location in the Dallas/Fortworth Metroplex. “That’s billions of dollars in adult diapers.”
The Esmella Chair: A Noninvasive, Nonsurgical Treatment for Incontinence
The Esmella chair provides a solution that not only keeps you from going “under the knife,” but it can take as little as 24 minutes for a single treatment—and you may even notice a difference within days. The best part is that all you’re required to do is remove your jewelry—smart watches, smart rings, and Fitbits included—and take a seat. It’s important to note that if you’ve had a hip replacement, have a pacemaker, or pain stimulator, this treatment isn’t going to be suitable. If you’ve had a joint replacement, the metal would be too close to the treatment area, while implanted devices would be disrupted by the electromagnetic stimulation.
Aurelia reveals that at her current age of 51, having borne no children, and being active, including practicing yoga, she wouldn’t have expected to have any issues with her pelvic floor. However, she admits that her muscles feel a bit weak at times. Additionally, though the science isn’t yet conclusive, the Emsella may even be able to help men with prostate issues.
Future Forward: Could This Improve Bladder Health and Sexual Wellness?
“We’re talking a lot about leakage and incontinence, and if that wasn’t enough…it could also [prompt] improvement in sexual wellness. That’s an added benefit,” says Dr. Wade.
Aurelia reveals that her grandmother, now 90 years old, has had some incontinence issues and “suffered with bladder infections for a very long time, and she was just recently in the hospital.” She goes on to say that her grandmother has become antibiotic-resistant, and she’d “love to do a case study on [her] grandmother” and see how this treatment would affect her bladder health.
Dr. Jill Wade has adopted the catch phrase, “from the core to the floor,” speaking of treatments that include various parts of the body. “Not only do we want you to sit on the Emsella chair and allow the electromagnetic stimulation to rise up underneath and support that hammock and that muscle there,” she says. “But we also want to work from the top of the abdomen (stomach) area to also strengthen above. So, everything basically from…the belly button down to the floor is stimulated to get stronger.”
Quick Treatment, Quick Results
Using the Esmella chair is the equivalent of doing 11,000 kegels in 26 minutes, which is impossible to do on your own. While surgery may offer a one-time transaction, it is fraught with risk, and though the Esmella would require several treatments over time, this noninvasive procedure doesn’t involve needles, anesthesia, or downtime. The effects of gravity on the body causes everything to draw downward, so regular “maintenance” is a necessary part of the aging process. Dr. Wade encourages you to grow old gracefully, and her service offerings will help you do just that. Whether that’s oral care, teeth whitening, or tips and tricks to help you look better and feel younger. So, visit Stonebriar Smile Design, sit in the “magic chair,” start your smile makeover journey, or try the Emsculpt Neo; it’s all in one place, and you’ll be surrounded by caring, knowledgeable staff and well-trained professionals.
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