New SHR technique

Hello ladies, how are you all today?

Good, thank you. Good, thank you.

So, I'm going to talk to you today a bit about the SHR or in motion or technique, whatever you want to call it.

The first thing you need to understand is it is a technique, it's not a technology, all right, so if you've got a diode or an IPL system, you can use this technique, just as you can use the stamping technique.

All right, so some people they they get um, they think that SHR is a particular type of device and it's not really.

So, this is called Super Hair Removal, which is really just a bit of a silly name, I don't know who came up with this, because there's nothing super about it, it's just hair removal, or it's also known as glide and slide or in motion or whatever your supplier calls it, they all get slightly different names.

But basically the whole idea of this this this uh motion back and forth, et cetera, is you're trying to build up heat gradually in the area you're treating.

So if you're using the old the the the conventional stamping technique, you're just firing one pulse of energy in one area and moving on to the next and firing one pulse and then the next and so on and so forth.

But with this method, you're you're building up the heat in the dermis and in the follicles over a a much longer period using a lower fluence.

So the way I like to think of this is that with the stamping technique, it's a bit like one of these old-fashioned steam presses that used to get in um hotels and the like.

So you you put in your your shirt or your blouse or your trousers, whatever, and you go and and one stamp was enough.

That that was it, ironed, whereas at home, we don't do that, we use these devices, um, which is much more like your SHR, so you're you're gliding back and forward over your article of clothing, which in this case looks to be pajamas, not sure.

So that's kind of what we're we're the difference here between uh SHR and stamping and and it it you get the same result at the end of the day, but just a different way to to get there.

So when you're doing the SHR, when when when the original research was done um a few years ago, they marked an area like this, a 10 by 10 centimeter uh square, and they basically said, right, okay, let's let's apply the energy, just checking, let's apply the energy in this area.

And and they went back and forth, back and forth a few times up and down the square until they delivered a a certain amount of energy in total.

They actually used 3,200 joules, they say.

I don't believe them, because that that's kind of weird number.

But that's what they say.

So what you do is you separate this into strips like this, 10 centimeters by 1 centimeter.

And there are obviously there are 10 of these strips.

So the idea is that you you set your machine up, I'll I'll show you in a second how we do that, and you go up, down, up, down, up, down.

You stay in that strip, because what you want to do is build up the temperature in that area, in that 10 by 1 centimeter square, square centimeter area.

You want to build it up so that the the dermis and the follicles temperatures all rise.

Once you've done that area, you then go down to the next 10 by 1 strip, you do that area, and then the next one, the 10 by 1.

So what you don't do is a kind of haphazard thing like this, where you're all over the place and that's pointless.

Because you're not going to build up enough energy doing it.

The idea of this is that you start here, move to there, stop, come back, and then that way, when you're moving back and forward, the heat that you've you've deposited in here and in here and in here is still retained to a certain extent.

So there's still some heat by the time you get back, by the time you get back there, there's still some heat there, by the time you get back there.

So the the although the heat is dissipating or conducting away from the strip, you still get enough retained heat.

So the temperature keeps rising.

And that's critical, because if you don't do the scanning properly, it's just not going to happen.

So here's uh a wee video um what I made with my daughter, I think that's her leg actually, um, using the using a black pen here because uh I I don't have a white one.

So, so here I'm mapping out a 10 by 10 square centimeter um area.

And then you've got to you've got to use a gel because you've got to pre-cool it.

So this is important, because if you if you don't pre-cool it, it's it's going to sting if you're using the right amount of energy.