Did a Hair Transplant Help Soccer Star Wayne Rooney’s On-Field Performance?
Dear Dr Rassman
Im a keen reader of your website and user of Propecia. Interesting article in the Daily Mail UK.Link: How Wayne Rooney’s hair loss cure could help boost your performance
I’m not sure about the extra muscle mass but the other effects apply to me. Though as the article suggests they could be psychosomatic.
Best Regards
Increased confidence and self-esteem in oneself is probably the most common result of a hair transplant or a successful reversal of hair loss with drugs like Rogaine and/or Propecia.
I will tell you about a man I transplanted some years ago. He was a very successful man who made millions of dollars taking over troubled companies and turning them around. He presented as a Norwood class 4 pattern balding patient who had two hair transplants over a one year period. He was a happy camper after his hair restoration. If you put him into a room with 100 men (even before his hair transplant) his dynamic personality would project so well that people would gather around him hoping that this charisma would rub off. That part of his career did not change after his hair transplant, as he was (and still is) a dynamic person.
One day, some two years after his second hair transplant, his wife was in Los Angeles on a family trip. She stopped by my office to see me. She told me how adamant she was against her husband having a hair transplant, and how they fought about it up until he had the first procedure. I remember her saying something to the effect of, “I told him that I loved him with or without hair and that having a hair transplant was foolish. I really did not think that he needed it and he was handsome with or without hair. Now I am here to tell you what I never told him, that I was wrong about my stance against the surgery. He changed after his hair was restored, and the man I married, the man I fell in love with, returned. I just want to thank you for what you did for us.”
Hair loss impacts our psyche in many ways. Over the years I have done transplants on thousands of men, and some of these men had successful careers after their transplant. Many of these men are household names (CEOs, celebrities, heads of state) and some of them have even given me credit for launching or resurrecting their careers. While I have been honored by that, I am certain that what happened to these men is that due to their self-confidence significantly improving, their ability to tackle their careers was unhampered by the energy they used to spend focusing on their hair loss.
So is this the case with Wayne Rooney? It sure sounds like it.
I love reading these articles. They give hair loss victims some hope. I always have people telling me to accept my baldness, and for a long time I did. However, majority of people in this world who don’t accept bald people. If anyone can point a major flaw in me, it would be my baldness. When I have conversations with people, they are always staring at my hairline, which makes me feel like I am not accepted in society anymore. Baldness is a big problem, and if we don’t find a cure, then we should at least invest in technology which can improves hair transplants.
Yeah i agree. People are quick to say “dont worry about it” when i bring things like these up. If not for the personal confidence alone than i do believe one could make a strong argument that having hair has significant impact on how others perceive us as well. Being bald is clearly less asthetic than having a good head of hair on almost anyone and it really can impact a person’s life. This is my opinion.
Wayne Rooney’s hair transplant looks great! Very happy for him and it’s good that he did it so publicly and is making hair transplants an open and acceptable thing to do!!!
Yes, no doubt hair transplant yield max level of satisfaction.