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Clinics are reporting a surge in enquiries about treatment for traction alopecia. Styles such as box braids, which are a way to protect curls from the cold, can cause the condition. Traction alopecia disproportionately affects black women, as well as anyone wearing tight hairstyles such as ballerinas and also Sikh men, and is the result of repeated and prolonged pulling on the hair.