Botox - Not Just For Wrinkles

While most people regard it primarily as a wrinkle treatment, this is not the only use for Botox. Essex clinics also administer Botox as a way to relieve excessive sweating, ease pain and improve the quality of their client's lives.

While Botox is used as a cosmetic remedy and does a great job of ridding people of unwanted crow’s feet and wrinkles, it also surprisingly has medical benefits that can aid people who suffer from the embarrassment of excessive drooling and sweating, as well those who experience painful muscle contractions that can make movement difficult if not impossible.

How Botox Works

• Why does Botox work for medical conditions such as excessive sweating and drooling and for painful and chronic muscles spasms?
• Botox blocks the neural impulses that stimulate the glands or muscles.
• This in effect stops those impulses from travelling from the brain to glands or muscles.

Botox Essex for excessive sweating

Hyperhidrosis is a chronic disorder of excessive sweating that can affect any body part, including the underarms, the palms, the soles of the feet, and the face. It also affects both males and females and can begin at any age.

It is often a severe and emotionally distressing problem for those who suffer from it, so it is not surprising that many seek relief from the condition by using Botox. As a treatment for hyperhidrosis, the efficacy and patient satisfaction of Botox Injections is considered to be very good.

Until recently, treatments for excessive sweating treatments were often ineffective, short lived or came with not insignificant risks. Botox hyperhidrosis treatments give new hope where previous therapies have failed before and were approved in the UK in mid 2001. Complete Rejuvenation Medical Aesthetics Clinic in Essex are now able to treat excessive sweating using Botox, bringing affordable treatment to all our clients.

Botox for chronic muscle spasms

Another medical condition that Botox can help with is chronic muscle spasms. While almost everyone experiences a muscle spasm from time to time, conditions such as a stroke, a spinal cord injury, certain eye conditions and cerebral palsy can result in frequent and chronic muscle spasms that interfere with freedom of movement and cause frequent pain.

While pain medication may lessen the discomfort as long as the muscles are contracting the pain remains. Muscle relaxants may ease the contractions but won't always stop them or allow for normal movement. Botox treatments, however, block the impulses that tell the muscles to contract, thereby relaxing the muscles and stopping the pain altogether. This can allow the person suffering from the contractions not only some relief from the pain but the ability to use the affected limb or facial feature more normally. The absence of pain also makes the person feel better and rest better which helps some conditions such as injuries to heal faster.

While the effects of Botox are only temporary and continued treatment will be needed, these treatments are less invasive than surgery and are a better option for some people, allowing them to live a better quality of life than might otherwise be possible with their condition.

Botox is not a miracle cure, but it can and does make people look and feel better on a daily basis making it an effective and relatively safe treatment for a variety of conditions both cosmetic and medical.

Find out more about Complete Rejuvenation's Botox Essex treatment for hyperhidrosis.