A cow-orker the other day was talking about some new procedure that supposedly removes body fat using some sort of “pulses.” There’s no cutting; the fat is “pulsed” away. She didn’t know anything else about it and some preliminary web searches only turn up liposuction information. Anyone heard of this? What’s the SD?
Sounds like she’s talking about ultrasonic lithotripsy as an alternative to liposuction.
Cite (from a doctor’s marketing page, so take with a grain of salt)
This is totally unrelated, but somewhat coincidental: Just this afternoon I was perusing a copy of the 1948 Kansas City Yellow Pages and saw an ad in the “Reducing Treatment” section for The Body Beautiful Niblack System. While it never comes right out and says what the Niblack System is all about, the ad has an impressive list of things it doesn’t involve, namely:
No Drugs
No Exercise
No Diets
No Sweats
No Electricity
No Pounding
… wtf? Pounding? As if some of the other weight loss programs employed physical beatings to knock the extra weight off?
Perhaps pulsing is just the 21st-century equivalent of this technique.
I haven’t heard of it, but I just know it’s the latest, most technologically advanced, and PROVEN EFFECTIVE method of removing the “fat” from the wallets of the victims–er, I mean patients.
I might have, but I do remember hearing once about some lady that was so fat, instead of using pulses the doctors had to use siesmotonic shockwaves to get her down to size…shook down 1/2 the hospital and set off earthquake alarms for miles 
j/k
Seriously, I have heard of this “pulse” procedure, but I haven’t actually met anyone who’ve experienced it 
So does it work? Doctors?