LONDON (AP) -- Is headbanging as cool if you wear a neck brace? That's what medical researchers are recommending to reduce injury.
The British Medical Journal has published a study of headbanging. Researchers have determined that the average headbanging song is 146 beats per minute, and when the range of motion is greater than 75 degrees, that's enough to cause mild head injury. Higher tempos and greater range of motion lead to risk of neck injury.
What to do?
Researchers suggest wearing "personal protective equipment," decreasing the range of head and neck motion, and only headbanging to every second beat or headbanging to slower tempo songs "by replacing heavy metal with adult-oriented rock."
