(Derrick et al, Aesthetic Surgery Journal, 2015; Klein et al, Lasers in Surgery and Medicine, 2017) Most sites require more than one treatment, often separated between two weeks and two months, again depending on the clinician's protocol . After each... more(Derrick et al, Aesthetic Surgery Journal, 2015; Klein et al, Lasers in Surgery and Medicine, 2017) Most sites require more than one treatment, often separated between two weeks and two months, again depending on the clinician's protocol . After each treatment, it is recommended to do two minutes of manual massage (although no studies delineated the science behind that specific two-minute recommendation), and some researchers question whether post-treatment manual massage and repeated treatments increase the effectiveness of the procedure. .