Approximately 30% of breakdancers report hair loss and inflammation of their scalp from head-spinning. A headspin hole is caused by the body trying to protect itself. The repeated trauma from head ...

Oct 11, 2024 19:00:00 Head spins in breakdancing pose a risk of creating 'head spin holes' in the dancer's head. A neurosurgeon at Copenhagen University Hospital has summarized the relationship ...

A recent case report describes an injury caused by breakdancing. A man in his early 30s was treated for a benign tumor on his scalp after years of practicing headspins.

A man in Europe was uncomfortable leaving his home without a hat, and his breakdancing hobby might’ve been to blame. Neurosurgeons in Copenhagen said in a recent case study that the man had ...

Breakdancing — or breaking, as it's known by practitioners — incorporates power moves that may involve balancing in off-kilter poses or spinning on top of the head, for example.

(Radiology Case Reports) The man said he had been breakdancing since he was 15, including spinning on his head, sometimes with a helmet but mainly while wearing a baseball hat or skull cap.

For those of a certain age, Coneheads is an iconic 90s film. But for breakdancers, it seems, developing a cone-shaped head can be an occupational hazard. According to a 2024 medical case report, a ...

A breakdancer had to undergo surgery because he spent so much time spinning on his head that he developed a ‘breakdance bulge’. The bulge, which is fairly well documented within the breakdance ...

The repeated trauma from head-spinning causes the epicranial aponeurosis ... A headspin hole isn't the worst injury you could sustain from breakdancing either. One dancer broke their neck ...

The bulge, which is fairly well documented within the breakdance community but barely studied in medicine, developed over the breakdancer’s 19-year dance career.