Muscle atrophy after injury, surgery, or extended immobilization is one of the slowest things to recover. Emsculpt NEO forces muscle contraction at a level no rehabilitation exercise can match — accelerating return-to-baseline strength dramatically.
When you’re immobilized — from a cast, brace, surgical recovery, or extended bed rest — the affected muscles begin to atrophy within days. Two weeks of disuse can result in 20%+ loss of muscle mass.
Standard rehabilitation requires you to voluntarily contract the affected muscles repeatedly. This works, but it’s slow — and many patients lose months of recovery time waiting for muscle to rebuild.
Emsculpt NEO uses HIFEM to force muscle contraction even when voluntary activation is limited by pain or weakness. The forced contractions stimulate the muscle to rebuild — accelerating recovery timelines significantly.
Common applications: post-knee surgery (knee/quad atrophy), post-pregnancy (abdominal deconditioning), prolonged sedentary periods (overall core/glute atrophy), shoulder/arm immobilization recovery.
Published research has documented Emsculpt’s ability to rebuild muscle mass and strength faster than voluntary exercise alone. In clinical applications, the technology has been used successfully for both cosmetic muscle-building and rehabilitative muscle-recovery purposes.
You’re still in acute healing — we wait for incision sites to close and surgical sutures to remove before treatment. You haven’t received clearance from your treating physician. You have electronic implants in the treatment area. The injury site has not stabilized.
This is medical care — not cosmetic. Every plan at Contoured is reviewed and approved by Dr. Benjamin Lam, DO, a board-certified plastic surgeon and clinical associate professor at PCOM. That oversight isn’t standard at most medspas. It is here.
Medical Director · Plastic Surgeon
Board-certified plastic and reconstructive surgeon. Past-President of the Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery Section of the American College of Osteopathic Surgeons. Director of the Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery Fellowship at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine.
Founder · Lead Provider
Twenty years inside the injectable and body-contouring industry — first as a sales rep and CoolSculpting trainer, now as the lead provider at Contoured. Personally performs the majority of medical-application treatments under Dr. Lam’s oversight.
Every treatment at Contoured is delivered by a named, credentialed team member — and every dosing plan is reviewed by a board-certified physician.
Text us or call. Every first visit is a free 30-minute consultation where we evaluate whether this treatment is right for your specific case.
