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The neck muscles (technical term: platysma) are also very strong—and constantly active. They start to pull down on the lower face, increasing jowling in the area, Dr. Collins adds.
"The sagging around my jawline and the loose skin on my neck made me feel older than I was," Judy says. ... tightening the neck muscles to improve underlying structures, and lifting or trimming ...
The NuFACE Trinity created what's been dubbed the "five minute face lift" thanks to the microcurrents within the tiny device that strengthen facial muscles over time.
Facial muscles. Facial toning, or facial exercise, is a type of cosmetic procedure or physical therapy tool which alters facial contours by means of increasing muscle tone and facial volume by promoting muscular hypertrophy, and preventing muscle loss due to aging or facial paralysis.
Platysmaplasty, commonly referred to as a neck lift, is a form of cosmetic plastic surgery involving tightening and removing skin from the human neck. [1] [2]Because it doesn't often follow a predictable pattern of aging, neck lift surgery must be tailored to each patient's specific needs.
While neck pain is the second most common cause of disability and cost $100 billion [2], the NIH budgets only $10 million to the study of neck pain [3]. One of the most common neck pains is between the neck and the shoulder. This is technically over the supraspinatus muscle and not in the neck, but it is still called “neck” pain.
The face may get all the attention when it comes to cosmetic treatments, but the neck deserves love, too. Novel technologies that go beyond creams deliver lifted, sculpted necks—without surgery.
In this same cantilevered head position, the longus colli muscles and other deep neck flexors around the front of the neck are hardly being used, so they become weak, allowing the chin to poke out. The combined effect of all the above in the cantilevered head position, with the chin poked out, is to compress every facet joint in the cervical spine.