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Scalp Laxity Exercises

Patients can help make their hair transplant experience a success by performing scalp exercises in the weeks or even months prior to surgery. Scalp exercises can increase scalp laxity which may allow more grafts to be harvested in a single session. Even patients with good laxity can benefit from scalp exercises.

Scalp Laxity Exercise 1

1. Clasp your hands and place on the back of your scalp as shown in the photos above and below. Find the area on your skull that has the ridge running along the back. Place your hands slightly above this ridge with your palms flat.
2. Find the area on your skull that has the ridge running along the back. Place your hands slightly above this ridge with your palms flat.
3. Pull your hands forward toward your forehead while at the same time moving your scalp up and down. Press hard enough against your head so that your scalp moves and your hands don't simply slip over your hair. Perform this exercise for 5 minutes in the morning and 5 minutes in the evening.

Exercise 1: Clasp hands behind head and move your scalp up
and down in the direction indicated by the arrows

Exercise 1: Profile view of hands clasped at back of scalp

Scalp Laxity Exercise 2

1. Place your hands firmly at the side of your head as in the above photo.
2. Move the scalp up down as far as scalp movement will allow without your hands slipping on your head.
3. Perform this exercise for 5 minutes in the morning and 5 minutes in the evening.

Exercise 2: Move the scalp up down as far as your scalp allows