Cooling the Scalp After a Hair Transplant to Reduce Recovery Time?

Ever smash your finger what happens is pain followed by swelling and more pain. Smash your finger and put it in ice the pain lasts a very short time and the swelling in reduced dramatically. So I wondered if hair transplantation has the same effect on in essence relating to the act of the surgery and implantation. If so would a post op cooling of the implantation area for say 30 min or so reduce the inflammation and shock of the surgery thereby improve the results, recovery time and reduce the shock hairloss.

No I don’t claim to know anything but I was curious.

I believe some doctors do use ice on the forehead to reduce the swelling, but in general there is no significant inflammation on the forehead where most doctors put ice. I do not know if the ice really helps, but I am confident that it does not impact the degree of shock loss that occurs in some men. Icing the recipient area (the grafts) could do more harm than good if the grafts are disturbed while the ice packs are put on and taken off.