Who Should Not Use an EMS Body Slimming Machine? Screening, Contraindications and Consent Forms

Short answer: Not everyone who asks about an EMS Body Slimming Machine can be booked for one, and the screening file rather than the sales desk is what settles it. Some clients we turn away. Others wait for a signature. Two tiers decide which, and three moments put it in writing.

Most rooms book first and screen later. That works until it doesn’t.

We build these units. We also hear the calls afterwards. The machine is half the story. A focused magnetic field drives deep muscle contractions. Nobody can tell from a chat at the door whether that suits the person in front of them.

Below: the tiers, the timing, the signature. That’s the order we use on the phone.

Screening Moments

Three fixed moments. Not one vague conversation.

One, the written intake. It goes out before the first booking. Answers arrive before a slot is promised.

Two, the verbal check at reception on the treatment day. A form signed three weeks ago describes a body that may have changed.

Three, consent. Signed last. Before any applicator touches skin.

Each moment leaves a page in the client file. Date it. Initial it. That page is what you hand an insurer or a regulator.

The front desk dislikes paperwork that slows a queue. Fair point. Still, nobody clears a clinical call at the couch. Nobody should explain afterwards why the question was never asked.

Storage matters too. Paper sits in a locked drawer. Digital copies sit behind a login. A regulator may ask for twelve months of files. Keep them findable.

The Ones We Refuse

Pregnancy is the easy one. It stops the booking there.

The rest of the absolute list is firmer than new operators expect.

Active implanted electronics sit at the top. Pacemakers. Neurostimulators. Some insulin delivery systems. We won’t run a magnetic field across those.

Metal inside the treatment zone joins them. Plates. Screws. Some intrauterine devices. Certain cosmetic implants.

Add anyone in active cancer treatment. Add anyone whose own doctor has ruled out electromagnetic therapy.

One action, every time. Decline politely. Write the reason down. Hand over a referral note, not a discount.

Absolute means no. No tweaked protocol changes it. No discount changes it either.

A pacemaker isn’t a negotiation. Neither is a neurostimulator. It still happens, though. The device never comes up. Nobody asks. The session goes ahead.

Judgment Calls

The relative tier is harder. Nothing on the form gives a clean yes or no.

Recent abdominal or orthopaedic surgery. A hernia repair with mesh. Controlled epilepsy. An unstable cardiac condition. Anticoagulant therapy. Dense tattoos over the area. Metalwork in the same place. The early post-partum weeks.

Some clinics treat a relative case. Gentler protocol. A clinician’s written approval. Others refer. Neither answer is automatically wrong. That’s why the call has to be deliberate. And written down.

One rule keeps it clean. No relative case moves on a receptionist’s opinion. A qualified clinician reviews the intake. Then signs. Still unclear? The client leaves with a referral, not a booking.

Relative means maybe. Maybe needs a clinician, not a policy.

Write why a case was cleared. Write why it was not. Name the clinician. Date the signature. Two lines cover it.

The Intake Form

Build a form that takes twenty minutes and three signatures. It gets abandoned by week two. Design for speed instead.

Keep the health section short. Cover only the conditions that change your decision.

Then let the form route itself. A tick in the absolute column stops the process. A tick in the relative column opens a clinician review. A clean form goes straight to consent.

Add a body-area diagram. Clients mark implants on a drawing. They mark recent surgery. They mark tattoos. Things they forget to say out loud.

Keep the page count low. One page beats three. Front desks finish one page.

Plain words. Big boxes. A pen that actually works.

Test it on a busy Saturday. Then watch where the pen stops.

Add a line for the client’s own words. It reads better than a tick.

Paper in a locked drawer beats a cloud folder nobody opens.

Four outcomes live in that file.

An absolute finding. No booking. Explain it. Issue a dated referral note with staff initials.

A relative finding. Hold the slot. Attach the clinician’s signed approval.

Clear, with cautions. Book at reduced intensity. Confirm again at check-in. Keep intake, consent and the check-in note together.

A returning client after any health change. Screen again as a new client. Fresh form for the new date.

Consent Record

Consent isn’t a signature block on a leaflet.

A record worth keeping names the treatment in plain words. It describes the sensation to expect. It says sessions run as a course, not a single visit. It lists the alternatives. It confirms the client can stop at any moment. No lost booking.

Then the points actually discussed. This isn’t a substitute for medical care. Results differ between individuals. The client agrees to report any health change before each session.

Read it out where the client prefers that. Then sign. Give them a copy. Keep one in the file.

A witness line helps. It costs nothing to add.

Short sentences in the client’s own language beat a dense legal paragraph. A consent the client has read is the only kind worth having.

Three Outcomes

Every screening ends one of three ways. Each gets a dated line and a staff name.

Proceed. Intake, consent and the check-in confirmation, all attached.

Pause. The relative factor named. The clinician’s approval attached. The protocol adjustment written in.

Decline. The reason noted neutrally. Nothing sold. A referral note issued.

Turning a client away isn’t a lost sale. It shows the judgement isn’t for sale.

A client who returns after a health change is a new screening. The old clearance described a body that no longer exists.

Front-Desk Words

The person in that moment is usually the front desk. Not the clinician. Give them words they can say without blushing.

One version works.

“Here is what the screening found. We won’t run this until a clinician has reviewed it. I can send the file to your own doctor. Meanwhile, let me book you something you can safely have today.”

That last line matters commercially. A warm handover keeps the relationship. A fair share of those clients come back for the service they could have had.

Don’t argue with the client. Don’t diagnose. Don’t promise anything.

Book the safe service. Note the refusal. Move on.

Practise the sentence out loud in a team meeting. A confident refusal and an apologetic one sound nothing alike. The difference is usually rehearsal.

Desk Training

The pack is too much for one head. Train two people. Minimum.

Log the training. Names and dates.

Cover the absolute list first. Then the relative list. Then the script.

Role-play one refusal out loud. Use a stopwatch.

An untrained receptionist with a binder is still an untrained receptionist.

The Referral Note

A referral note is a small document. Get it right.

Name the client. Date it. Say what the screening found.

Add the staff initials. Add the clinician’s name wherever one was involved.

No diagnosis goes in it. No opinion on what the client should do next. Just the finding and the direction.

Hand it over in an envelope. Not across a desk.

Answers We Repeat

Can we treat a client with a pacemaker? No. An external field and an implanted device don’t share a room. No operator manages that from the console. Decline, then document.

How early does the health form go out? Before the first booking. Then verbally on the day. Answers age.

What belongs on the form? Only the conditions that change your decision. Group them as absolute, relative or proceed with care. Add the body-area diagram.

Who approves a relative case? A qualified clinician, working under your local regulations. In writing. Attached to the file. Reception gathers facts. It doesn’t clear anyone on its own judgement.

What do we tell a client we declined? What the screening found. Then a referral note. Then a service they can safely receive. Record the decision neutrally. The file should read as a considered judgement, not an arbitrary no. Nothing is sold in that conversation.

Assembling a screening pack for a new service line? Put your draft form in front of the Perfektlaser team. Bring the unit spec you have in mind. We make this platform, and we’ll come back on treatment boundaries, operating notes and the paperwork that belongs beside it. Your protocol should exist before the first client is booked, reviewed under your own local rules and clinical judgement.