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Doctors in Germany have warned that headbanging could be bad for your . Headbanging is a dance done by of heavy metal music. Dancers shake their heads backwards and , and from side to side, very quickly. Doctors say that it is the dance can lead to brain . German doctors recently treated a 50-year-old fan of the heavy metal band Motorhead. His headbanging led to brain damage. Doctors said the man had no previous of head injuries but had been headbanging for many years. The doctors said the of damage to the brain from headbanging was still and said heavy metal fans do not need to stop doing the dance.

The man complained of headaches after going to a Motorhead concert. He went to hospital for a scan. Doctors found he had inside his brain. He needed an to repair the damage from the headbanging. Doctors drilled a in his brain to release some blood. Two months after the operation his headaches disappeared. The head doctor Ariyan Pirayesh said: "We are not against headbanging. The risk of injury is very, very low. I think if our had gone to a classical , this would not have happened." He had good for heavy metal fans and said they should carry on enjoying , saying: "Rock 'n' roll will never die. Heavy metal fans should on."

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