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If you often come to gigs or like to watch concerts and festivals rock, punk, or metal, you know the term head banging or headbang?
When you were a teenager or maybe until now, you might like to enjoy those loud rock music while nodding your head. But do you know that it is headbang it turns out to be dangerous?
WebMD.com in 2008 then reported that headbang can be dangerous for the brain, to be exact can injure the brain and can even cause a stroke! Oops …
Finding that headbang This dangerous was revealed by two researchers from the University of New South Wales in Australia. The two researchers, professor Andrew McIntosh and his assistant, Declan Patton, found that moving the head up and down quickly, turning the head fast, or moving the head and neck back and forth while listening to music, can increase the risk of injury. This risk is higher when the tempo of the music is also high.
You can reduce the risk of injury by wearing a neck guard or moving your head slowly, the two researchers said.
Andrew and Declan conducted their research by visiting various metal music concerts, such as Motorhead, Ozzy Osbourne, and Skid Row. They saw that headbang often done by the audience who came. Until they finally made a risk theory of the relationship between brain injury and musical tempo, as well as the distance from neck and head movements. They found an increased risk of neck injury when the music hit a tempo of 130 beats per minute.
They later discovered that every 146 beats per minute, the audience would perform headbang. This was concluded after making a list of 11 songs that one could make a person perform headbang. Headbang which can cause headaches and dizziness, occurs when neck and head movements are greater than 75 degrees.
The two researchers also gave advice to musicians that every time they released an album to include a warning for listeners and audiences to do so headbang carefully.
There may be bleeding in the brain
In 2014,The Daily Beast also reports a new case study published in the Lancet medical journal, which reveals that head banging cause brain damage, because the brain will collide with the skull.
The study was conducted because of a case that happened to a heavy metal music fan in Germany, whose brain was bleeding after doing it headbang while watching the Motörhead concert.
This 50-year-old man complained of headaches for two weeks and was finally admitted to Hannover Medical School. The CT scan showed a cerebral hemorrhage (chronic subdural hematoma) in the right side of the brain. To the doctor, the man said that he had often done it headbang for years.
One of the doctors who treated him, Dr. Ariya Pirayesh Islamian, said that doctors are not against someone doing headbanging. According to Dr. Ariya, risk headbang itself is very, very low.
"But I think if our patient went to a classical concert, this would not have happened," said Dr. Ariya.
A neurosurgeon and trustee from Headway (a brain injury advocacy group in the UK), Dr. Colin Shieff, said that there may be other risks at a rock concert other than head banging.
"Most people who go to music festivals and hop around shaking their heads don't end up in the hands of a neurosurgeon," explains Dr. Colin.
However, if you still want to enjoy loud music like punk, rock, and metal, you also want to enjoy it with headbanging, it is better to follow what professor Andrew McIntosh and his assistant, Declan Patton have suggested, namely to do it in moderation.
If you feel something is wrong with your head or you have a persistent headache afterheadbang rejoicing at a music concert, you should immediately go to the doctor to check it out.
