A Heavy Metal Health Warning
Put on your tin foil hats and keep the paramedics on speed dial, because Declan Patton and Andrew McIntosh at the School for Risk and Safety Sciences at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, attended hard rock and heavy metal concerts to observe headbanging techniques…and have come up with some disturbing spoof news.
These two fine chaps then worked up a “biomechanical analysis”, culminating in a “theoretical headbanging model.”
In their offbeat study, published by the British Medical Journal (BMJ), the pair say that thrashing about like an electro-shocked rabbit may cause similar effects to whiplash.
A typical death-metal rhythm of 146 beats-per-minute or faster, combined with head-banging arcs of at least 45 degrees, is “predicted to cause mild head and neck injury,” they say.
With faster tempos and a wider arcs, “there are definite risks of mild traumatic brain injury.”
Anecdotal evidence also points to the potential health hazards of thrash rock, the paper says.
“In 2005, doctors believed that Terry Balsamo, the guitarist from the band Evanescence, experienced a stroke from head banging,” it notes.
The best part is, their winking recommendation (and we’re bolding this for your amusement only): wear a neckbrace.
For the full article, clicketh.
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wow, reporting FAKE NEWS now are we? the article this is based on is satire.
http://www.theage.com.au/national/medical-journal-exercises-funny-bones-20081218-71c6.html
dude, did you not read what they posted?? it’s tongue in cheek to a tee.plus they even mention it’s a spoof.idiot.
Adrenaline starts to flow
You’re thrashing all around
Acting like a maniac…
Whiplash!
Not to mention doing it too much makes you look like a drunk redneck.
Who misses the days of choreographed headbanging?
““In 2005, doctors believed that Terry Balsamo, the guitarist from the band Evanescence, experienced a stroke from head banging,” it notes.”
This, of course, not to music, but his head bouncing up and down on a penis.
BANG UR HEAD!
METAL HEALTH WILL DRIVE YOU TO THE HOSPITAL!
hahaha i fuckin love headbanging
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