Ryan Giggs Hair Loss Treatment

Ryan Giggs was yesterday photographed leaving a hair clinic with a grin on his face and a “progress report” clutched in his hand.

Giggs’s scalp is just the latest to be collected by the follicle-regenerating industry. Cricketers Graham Gooch, Michael Vaughan and Shane Warne have admitted putting their faith in “hair regeneration” regimes costing between £6,000 and £10,000, as has rugby player Austin Healey. Wayne Rooney is also thought to have undergone hair-replacement treatment  aged just 24.

Giggs’s treatment of choice is, apparently, a weekly 40-minute laser therapy said to help regrow hair follicles, a special shampoo and a “liquid regrowth” formula rubbed into the scalp twice a day.

Vaughan opted for a more expensive option: a £10,000, “strand by strand” replacement of thinning hair with “farmed” Russian hair that is woven in over several treatments.

Such operations do not necessarily deliver all they promise. The Advanced Hair Studio (AHS)  salon of choice for the above-mentioned sports stars  has twice been censured by the Advertising Standards Authority. Last year, it banned an AHS advert that featured Warne and Gooch, ruling that the AHS had misleadingly implied their treatment could stop hair loss or cause hair to regrow.