Sport Faces Ruin As Sumo Wrestlers Lose Their Hair
Released
on: April 15, 2009, 3:26 am
Author: The
Hospital Group
Industry: Sports
An
infectious skin disease is spreading through the sport of Sumo
Wresling resulting in some of the top wrestlers losing their hair.
Sumo
wrestling is facing ruin because of an infectious skin disease
spreading throughout the sport – and causing top wrestlers
to lose their hair.
As
the wrestlers grapple with one another, the fungus spreads itching
and baldness, causing flakes of skin to flake off. The disease
also enters hair follicles and causes hair loss – causing
much disquiet in the sport as the wrestlers lose their famous
‘top-knots’.
Wrestlers
have been forced to undertake a three-month course of drugs to
rid themselves of the disease, but the hair loss is permanent.
Throughout the sport, hair is recognised as central to a wrestlers’
reputation, in much the same way that in many cultures hair is
acknowledged as a symbol of virility.
Since
the Edo period sumo wrestlers have been expected to grow their
hair long and adopt the ‘top-knot’ style. Such is
the superstition surrounding a wrestler’s hair, Yokozuna
Tochigiyama, Japan’s most successful wrestlers, retired
in his prime in 1925 as he did not have enough hair.
Men
in the United Kingdom need not go to such lengths if they are
suffering from hair loss.
The
Hospital Group, the UK’s leading cosmetic surgeons, perform
more hair restoration procedures than any other surgery provider,
and only carry out natural hair transplants using the latest Follicular
Hair Transplantation techniques. Follicular Transplantation involves
transplanting hair units, often with four or five hairs growing
from one follicle, to a bald spot to generate growth.
Human
hairs are genetically programmed to either be sensitive to the
male hormone, which causing them to die, or to be permanently
immune to the hormone and last a lifetime. Hair Transplantation
uses the ‘lifetime growth’ hairs from around the back
of the head, and transplants them in areas where the hairs have
died. Follicular or Hair
Transplantation at The Hospital Group is a minor surgical
procedure, taking little more than three hours.
The
Hospital Group’s hair restoration and transplantation clinic
was founded in 1992, and is staffed with industry experts at its
dedicated Dolan Park Hospital in the Midlands. The Hospital Group
is committed to providing the very highest standards and all procedures
are performed by an expert medical team in state-of-the-art facilities
that are second to none. Since The Hospital Group was established,
it has grown from a small pharmaceutical company to one of the
UK’s foremost cosmetic
surgery providers.
Contact Details: For further information of The Hospital Group’s
range of hair restoration procedures, surgery-seekers should visit
the website www.thehospitalgroup.org
or call our patient care coordinators on 0845 762 6727.