<p><em>It's BMJ week (again) on NCBI ROFL! After the success of our first BMJ week, we decided to devote another week to fun articles from holiday issues of the </em><a href="http://www.bmj.com/" title="">British Medical Journal</a><em>. Enjoy!</em></p><div class="vert-display-toggle collapsible relative flex flex-col items-center "><div class="vert-unit mt-4 mb-3 top-20"><div ad-type="mobile-desktop" class="ad-wrapper vert min-h-boombox flex items-start justify-center" data-ad-mapping="inline" data-ad-slot="Discover/inline-ad" id="div-inline-ad-0"></div></div><span aria-label="Advertisement" class="text-ad mt-1 text-[11px] uppercase">Advertisement</span></div><p> "OBJECTIVE: To investigate the risks of mild traumatic brain injury and neck injury associated with head banging, a popular dance form accompanying heavy metal music. DESIGN: Observational studies, focus group, and biomechanical analysis. PARTICIPANTS: Head bangers. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Head Injury Criterion and Neck Injury Criterion were derived for head banging styles and both popular heavy metal songs and easy listening music controls. RESULTS: 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 degrees . At higher tempos and greater ranges of motion there is a risk of neck injury. CONCLUSION: To minimise 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." <a href="http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/337/dec17_2/a2825?view=long&amp;pmid=19091761" title="">Read the full article here.</a></p><p><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19091761" title=""></a></p><div data-embedid="4b651d8f-ea11-445f-9ea7-e776ca36eef3" id="insticator-embed-temp"></div><figure class="fr-image-container fr-full"><img srcset="https://cdn.discovermagazine.com/assets/image/29590/head-bangers-s.webp 480w, https://cdn.discovermagazine.com/assets/image/29590/head-bangers-m.webp 660w" sizes="(max-width: 480px) 480px, 660px" src="https://cdn.discovermagazine.com/assets/image/29590/head-bangers-s.jpg" title="head-bangers.jpg" loading="lazy" data-id="29590"><figcaption class="fr-figcaption"><p class="fr-caption"></p></figcaption></figure><p><em>Image: flickr/</em><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/y-its-mom_pics_of_wyatt/2256062702/" title="">y-its-mom</a></p><p> Related content: Discoblog: <a href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/08/26/injuries-due-to-falling-coconuts/" title="">NCBI ROFL: Injuries due to falling coconuts.</a></p><p> Discoblog: <a href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2010/02/14/ncbi-rofl-i-scream-you-scream-we-all-scream-from-ice-cream-headaches/" title="">NCBI ROFL: I scream! You scream! We all scream…from ice-cream headaches.</a></p><p> Discoblog: <a href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/11/16/pink-floyd-hallucinations-not-just-for-druggies/" title="">NCBI ROFL: Pink Floyd hallucinations: not just for druggies.</a></p><p> WTF is NCBI ROFL? Read our <a href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2010/01/12/ncbi-rofl-hello-world/" title="">FAQ</a></p><p>!</p>

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It's BMJ week (again) on NCBI ROFL! After the success of our first BMJ week, we decided to devote another week to fun articles from holiday issues of the British Medical Journal. Enjoy! "OBJECTIVE: To investigate the risks of mild traumatic brain injury and neck injury associated with head banging, a popular dance form accompanying heavy metal music. DESIGN: Observational studies, focus group, and biomechanical analysis. PARTICIPANTS: Head bangers. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Head Injury Criterion and Neck Injury Criterion were derived for head banging styles and both popular heavy metal songs and easy listening music controls. RESULTS: 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 degrees . At higher tempos and greater ranges of motion there is a risk of neck injury. CONCLUSION: To minimise 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." Read the full article here. Image: flickr/y-its-mom Related content: Discoblog: NCBI ROFL: Injuries due to falling coconuts. Discoblog: NCBI ROFL: I scream! You scream! We all scream…from ice-cream headaches. Discoblog: NCBI ROFL: Pink Floyd hallucinations: not just for druggies. WTF is NCBI ROFL? Read our FAQ !

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