The machine is the easy part. Whether you can come eight times is the real question
EMS is a course, not an appointment. One session is an experience; a series is the only thing that changes how a muscle sits. Everything anyone asks us about the machine matters far less than whether eight to ten trips fit into the next six weeks of your life.
So this page is mostly arithmetic and geography rather than technology. If the arithmetic does not work for you, the honest answer is to keep your money, and we will tell you that at the consultation.
What a course actually asks of you
| What it is | What that means in practice |
|---|---|
| A single session | 45 minutes on the table. Useful to find out whether you like the sensation. It does not change anything on its own. |
| A working series | Roughly twice a week for four to six weeks. That is eight to twelve visits, plus parking and the drive. |
| After the series | Muscle detrains like any other training. Something has to continue, here or in a gym, or it fades. |
That third row is the one people are least often told, and it is the reason we wrote a whole page about what happens when you stop. Read it before you buy anything, not after.
The Pointe-Claire part
Our West Island clinic is on Brunswick in Dollard-des-Ormeaux, which is a few minutes from most of Pointe-Claire and about the same from Kirkland, Beaconsfield and Pierrefonds. That closeness is the whole point: a course of eight to twelve visits only survives contact with a real week if the drive is short.
Late afternoons and early evenings fill first, so if those are the only times you can come, book the whole series at once rather than one appointment at a time. That is a scheduling reality, not a sales tactic, and the front desk will say the same thing.
Before the calendar, check you have the right problem
EMS contracts muscle. It does not remove fat and it does not tighten skin, and most disappointment with it comes from having been sold it for one of those two things. Three quick reads that will save you a consultation:
- Why EMS is not a fat treatment, which is the single most common misunderstanding.
- Telling fat from loose skin from low muscle, using a one-minute test you can do in front of a mirror.
- Whether the area you have in mind is one we work on at all, which is what the consultation settles.
If you already know the area
Some questions are area-specific enough to deserve their own page. The ones people from this side of the island read most: outer thighs and saddlebags, the male chest, and the flanks and love handles. The service and the price are the same wherever you read about it; only the placement of the pads changes.
What it costs
| Treatment | Time | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Free body consultation | 15 min | No charge |
| Slimwave EMS with infrared | 45 min | $135 |
Same price at all four clinics, including West Island. Multiply the second row by the number of visits in your series before you decide anything — that number, not the session price, is what you are actually being asked to spend.
What we will not do
- Sell EMS as a fat or weight-loss treatment.
- Sell a long series to someone who has just told us they travel for work most weeks.
- Let anyone leave believing a single session will show them a result.
- Suggest that treating one area reduces fat in that area.
When we will not treat you at all
A pacemaker or any implanted electrical device, pregnancy, epilepsy, metal in the area being treated, or broken or infected skin all rule EMS out completely. Raise heart conditions when you book rather than once you are on the table, so nobody wastes a trip in from the West Island.
See a doctor if
One limb is noticeably larger than the other, a leg or arm swells, or there is pain and warmth in a limb. None of that is cosmetic and some of it is urgent. The same goes for sudden abdominal swelling or a hernia you can feel, which needs assessing before anything is strapped over it.
What we offer for this
Free body consultation Where the honest arithmetic gets done, before anything is booked. 15 min · no charge 
Slimwave EMS with infrared One visit of a series. Same price at the West Island clinic. 45 min · from $135 Prices are a starting point and the consultation is free. What actually suits you is decided when we see the skin, not from a page.
Where to find us
West Island — 45 boulevard Brunswick, Dollard-des-Ormeaux
Downtown Montreal — 2365 rue Saint-Patrick, Unit A5
Laval — 1655 boulevard de l'Avenir
Saint-Léonard — 5045 rue Jean-Talon Est
This page is general information and is not medical advice. Prices are current as of 1 September 2026 and can change. Electrical muscle stimulation works on muscle: it does not remove fat, reduce weight, or tighten skin, and any result requires ongoing maintenance. Session counts on this page describe how we schedule a course, not a promised outcome. EMS is contraindicated with pacemakers and implanted electrical devices, during pregnancy, with epilepsy, and over metal implants. Limb swelling, asymmetry or pain should be assessed by a physician.
