Male-Pattern Hair Loss: A Supraorbital Nerve Entrapment Syndrome?
January 1980
in “
Acupuncture & electro-therapeutics research
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Studysummary The authors suggest that male-pattern hair loss may be linked to neuropathy caused by tension on scalp nerves, potentially worsened by testosterone, and propose electrical stimulation as a temporary treatment. Our plain-language summary of this paper — not a Tressless recommendation.
Male-pattern hair loss may be caused by neuropathy of the supraorbital nerve, which can be treated with transcutaneous electrical neural stimulation (TENS) or possibly acupuncture. Hair loss results from the deprivation of the trophic or nutritional factor of hair follicles and may occur anywhere on the body. Further investigation is needed to determine the relationship between hair loss and supraorbital foramen.
