What are Medical Spas?
A med spa, also known as medical spa, is a facility whose medical program is run under the strict supervision of a licensed health care professional, according to The International Medical Spa Association. Med spas offer different ways of combining the holistic approach and comfort of a day spa with the conventional and complementary medical modalities. Some med spas focus on aesthetics, offering day spa services alongside medically supervised cosmetic procedures. Med spas utilize lasers and intense pulsed light technology as well as medical mocrodermabrasions, photo-facials, Botox and Restylane injections, medical peels and other medical beauty procedures. The benefit is that these new technologies permit these anti-aging procedures to be performed without surgery or recovery time. You can also get traditional spa services like facials, massages, and body treatments. Others feature treatments formulated according to complementary and alternative healing principles. Still others work w
