What is vaginal tightening?
Vaginal tightening refers to any method used to tighten the vagina, which can lose muscle tone and become lax after childbirth or the menopause or due to age.
Most women find they have no issues with the size, lubrication or elasticity of their vagina post-childbirth or as they get older. But for others, problems such as sexual dysfunction, vaginal atrophy, vaginal laxity, painful intercourse and stress incontinence can have a negative impact on their quality of life.
When is this recommended?
The wall of the vagina can change for a number of reasons, leading to dryness, pain during intercourse, or simply a reduction in enjoyment. Some women experience vaginal dryness after menopause, or find that the vagina becomes less elastic with age or after childbirth. This loss of elasticity might also result in repeated vaginal infections.
What is the Procedure?
Vaginal laser treatments, such as FemiLift, are non-surgical procedures that use energy, delivered via a wand or probe, that’s inserted into the vagina to gently heat the vaginal tissue.
Heating the vaginal tissue creates painless micro-tears in the vaginal walls. These stimulate the body to produce more collagen and elastin fibres, which improve lubrication and restore the strength and elasticity of the vaginal walls.
Although laser rejuvenation has been proven to work, it’s important to note that it doesn’t actually tighten the muscles of the vagina. Instead, laser treatment works by improving the lubrication, strength and elasticity of the vaginal walls, which can make the vagina feel tighter.
We have an entire section of our website dedicated to everything you need to know about FemiLift treatment and similar laser technology such as yag laser energy and radiofrequency energy.
What are the advantages?
- improve symptoms of vaginal atrophy (when the vaginal walls become thinner, drier and inflamed)
- reduce vaginal dryness
- treat stress urinary incontinence (SUI)
- improve lubrication
- reduce the number of recurrent infections such as bacterial vaginosis (BV)
- improve vaginal laxity