“It became an official Olympic sport”… If you do this B-boy move too much, you could develop a tumor on your head – Maeil Business Newspaper

A study has shown that the ‘head spin’, which is one of the break dance movements in which a person spins around with his head on the floor, can cause tumors on the crown of the head.

On the 14th (local time), the Washington Post (WP) called Danish neurosurgeons Mikel Bundgaard Scotting and Christian Bastruf Södergaard and published in the medical journal BMJ the case of a male patient in his 30s who developed a tumor as a result of his this move it

A man who had been spinning heads for about 20 years developed an inch-thick tumor on the top of his head, doctors said. This man suffered hair loss on his head about 5 years ago, and at the same time when his head went back, he found a small nodule. However, he continued to break dance after that and recently went to the hospital when the bump got bigger and his head got even balder.

A lump was felt between the scalp and the skull, and an MRI scan revealed a tumor on the head. He said that the tumor was surgically removed and as a result, a cone-shaped lump appeared on the patient’s head.

The doctors emphasized, “This case highlights the importance of knowing the chest position in break dancers and suggests that surgical intervention could be an effective treatment.” “

They also pointed out that head tumors that caused break dance moves were not properly investigated. In previous studies, it was known that broken dance movements such as head spins cause symptoms such as scalp swelling and lumps on dancers’ heads, but this is the first study to show a correlation with tumors. According to a study published in 2009, 60.4% of the 106 break dancers who were studied suffered injuries to the bone as a result of head spinning, and 23.6% responded that they had painless bumps on their heads. Breakdancing was born as a type of hip-hop dance in New York, USA in the early 1970s. Break dancing attracted public attention when it was introduced as an official Olympic sport for the first time at the Paris Olympics this year.