Scalp massage and tiny needling devices may help with hair growth by relaxing scalp muscles or creating inflammation at the dermal papillae level.

“for what worked for me it was it sounds really stupid sounds really simple but it was scalp massages it was massaging the perimeter of my scalp with my fingertips to really learn at an intimate level how these muscles were contracting and where to press and then how to relax them and then on top of that pinching pressing and stretching exercises atop the the scalp where i was thinning and that helped to elicit new antigen signaling proteins it helped to elicit the same inflammatory mechanisms that microneedling likely does and in doing so promote the growth of a new stage of the hair follicle reduce the levels of um reduce the degree of fibrosis presumably and then lead to better hair increasing counts”

“and if there are techniques that we can use to actually you know relax these frontalis muscles and relax these scalp muscles that could also help with hair i think everybody is going to be on board with that i can see plenty of husbands and wives trading scalp massages from now on and these tiny needling devices we can put a link in the show notes or something they're very cheap on amazon and you can run them over your head and perhaps create some inflammation that will result in positive changes at the level of the dermal papillae you”