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.

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.

Neurosurgeons in Copenhagen said in a recent case study that the man had developed a tumor atop his head from years of head spinning, a common breakdancing move.

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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.

The case has been reported in the BMJ Case Reports journal, which urges breakdancers to avoid head spinning if they develop a ‘breakdance bulge’ on their head.

After years of spinning on his head, a breakdancer grew a scalp tumor. Copenhagen neurosurgeons said in a case study that a tumor created a cone-shaped bump atop a breakdancer’s head.

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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.

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.