The term "headbanging" (from English. headbanging) means a strong shaking of the head in time with the music. This concept is familiar to lovers of heavy rock. It would seem that it's a matter of taste. But it turned out that it was not at all harmless. German experts warn that headbanging can cause fans of life-threatening subdural hematomas.

Scientists have described an interesting case. The neurological department of the Hanover School of Medicine (Germany) was approached by a man who suffered from severe headaches for 2 weeks in a row, but did not want to go to the doctors. In addition, there was another person with similar symptoms who wished to remain anonymous.

Both without previous head trauma, did not abuse drugs, laboratory tests were normal. In the first male, a computed tomography of the head revealed a right-sided chronic subdural hematoma. July 4, a month after going to the hospital, a 50-year-old fan of the Motorhead group died.

This is the first recorded case that has shown that headbanging can lead to a chronic subdural hematoma that develops for many days. Previously, the authors have described three cases where presumably headbang was the cause of acute and subacute subdural hematoma.

Scientists already know that headbanging is associated with such serious conditions as carotid stratification, neck whiplash, mediastinal emphysema, fracture of the second cervical vertebra, and others.. Now in this sad list it is possible to bring subdural hematoma.

"Even though there are very few documented cases of this phenomenon, the real frequency of subdural hematomas associated with headbanging remains unknown, because often they do not have clinical manifestations or are manifested only by a mild headache that itself passes," writes the lead author of the study Dr. Arian Pirayesh Islamian (Ariyan Pirayesh Islamian).

To explain how the hematoma forms in the space between the shell and the surface of the brain, the authors write:

"We believe that headbanging, which combines jerks forward and back with increasing speed, leads to overload and rupture of the venous vessels of the brain and the outflow of blood from the subdural subshell) space ".

The authors write that headbanging appeared in the early 1970s, and even the approximate number of his fans remains unknown. According to them, the legendary British band Motorhead "created a kind of subspecies of speed metal, in which the rate can exceed 200 beats per minute". Although such shows look amazing and stimulate the audience, some fans can expose themselves to the danger of too intense headbanging.

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