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Expert Says Headbanging Is Dangerous

Thinking of headbanging at the next concert you go to? Well, according to Dr. Andrew McIntosh, you should bring a neck brace with you.

Dr. McIntosh, a biomedical and injury expert at the University of New South Wales, performed a study and found that headbanging in time with heavy metal or hard rock music can lead to serious head or neck injuries.

"Perhaps AC/DC should play something more appropriate, such as Moon River," McIntosh jokingly tells The Herald.

Enlisting the help of researcher and heavy metal enthusiast Declan Patton to watch fans at metal concerts, the two reported that "An average head banging song has a tempo of about 146 beats per minute, which is predicted to cause mild head injury when the range of motion is greater than 75°. At higher tempos and greater ranges of motion there is a risk of neck injury."

"To minimize the risk of head and neck injury, head bangers should decrease their range of head and neck motion, head bang to slower tempo songs by replacing heavy metal with adult oriented rock, only head bang to every second beat, or use personal protective equipment," McIntosh reports.

Translation: At the cost of looking like the biggest dork in the room, wearing a neck brace to the next concert you go to could very well save you from some unnecessary neck pains the next morning.

Report by David Lowe-Bianco.

uhm... rofl?

and 'replacing heavy metal with adult oriented rock' that sentence is just sad

 

[Lady_Wolf]

wondering what happened to the thread

what do you mean?

 

[Sipyloidea]

damnit, you got me

 

[Sipyloidea]

what do you mean?

dunno, just feels to me like people are less interested in it nowadays

 

[Sipyloidea]

depends... if you're like running around in the moshpits, then yea
but if you're just standing around, then not really
I'm in between... get sucked into the moshpits for being somewhat close to stage, and then fight to stay on my feet

well you always gotta do this fighting thing and only doing that is already training you

 

[Sipyloidea]

my gear cable is broken, I only have my 3rd gear left now (the heaviest)

well as long as you live in NL that might be fine

 

[Sipyloidea]

Headbanging is dangerous!

I was thinking like LW telling that?

 

[Sipyloidea]

I like cycling... my bike just needs to be repaird... I'm to lazy for it...

we can do that together someday then

 

[Sipyloidea]

it is not as bad as it used to be

it is far from over though, have to check with my doc first if I can do sports like that in the first place

ah, ok... I asked about that earlier. Don't think you saw it. But good to know it's getting better. Would just really suck if you still couldn't do sports

 

[Sipyloidea]

I used to exercise, but after I stopped at the air force it got less, and after a special monthly card I quit in total because I could not do half my schedule because of my leg



but my leg is getting better (a bit)

a bit is better than none, right? *hugs*

 

[Sipyloidea]

I could never run... I fricken hate it
almost anything else, I'd rather do

I got that with biking. But running I kinda like

 

[Sipyloidea]

ah okay, true...
but if there's two machines beside each other where they can suffer together, that could work, I guess

yea, that's what my mum and me always did in the gym

 

[Sipyloidea]

that would mean 1 person hanging on the machine, doing nothing, while the other one works his ass off, the next one is running for 20 minutes while the first one is not doing anything

well, Kris was right, you can kinda do it together if there's two machines next to each other. Or just work out on your own each and always talk in between. That's already helping a lot against boredom

 

[Sipyloidea]

Ask Smoo about working out he knows his shit!

LW knows about it very well too

 

[Sipyloidea]

that is bullshit, coz if you go with somebody else you would have to use the exact same schedule for working out. that does not work either

don't see the problem in doing that