Can Scalp Exercises Grow Hair?
I see you posted about this website before – https://www.hairloss-reversible.com/my_approach.htm. It recommends treating hair loss by using the muscles at the front and back of the head to move the scalp back and forth.
I know this is unscientific and likely ineffectual. But I actually discovered how to do these exercises as a way to self-treat tension headaches and scalp tension, before I read the website or had any hair loss.
So my question is, might such exercises have any impact at all on miniaturizing follicles, particularly those being treated with minoxidil? I still like to moderately exercise my scalp in this way during the day (when no-one is looking, of course) but wonder if there might be some negative cross-over effects to moving about the scalp and follicles?
On the flip side, scalp exercises seem to be recommended to help loosen it prior to hair surgery?
Someone put the time and energy to put together that information.
From a medical point of view, scalp exercises will not grow hair or help miniaturized hair.
What is a little bit hilarious (or sad, depending how one looks at it) about the web site the poster is referring to is the “revelation” by the author that: “I arrived at the idea of the scalp exercise after I noticed that bald men like my father and all my uncles had a fringe of hair surrounding the balding area. I also noticed that when these men were eating, when they were chewing food, I could see muscles contracting under this fringe of hair. I thought that the contraction of these muscles and the increased blood flow that muscle contraction requires was perhaps halting further hair loss in this fringe area. I mean, talk about misconceptions about human biology! (especially when the frontalis muscle – in a region of common balding – is one of the most common sources of muscle tension “”contraction” headaches).