First Reading Material-The Science Of Headbanging

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Title: The Science of Headbanging

Genre: Picture Article

New Vocabulary:

1 Snugly

2 Hubbub

3 Surmised

Enjoyment: I enjoy reading this article because it gives me more knowledge about headbanging .

Comprehension: For me its not easy nor difficult. Because i'll understand the idea of this article but in some point I encounter some words that i don't understand.

Reading Summary: The Science Of Headbanging by Christa Titus. Recent report revealed that headbanging could cause brain damage. As it did for a 50 year old motor head fan who, after a concert in Germany was discovered with bleeding on the brain. As doctors said,vigorous headbanging can cause of man's persistent headaches. Eventually, the man had fluid in his brain drained via a hole drilled in his skull and headache ceased. Assistant Professor of neurosurgery Dr. Christopher Mandigo says the noise was blown out of proportion and that incidents are rare. "Headbanging is not dangerous,it has no difference than riding a jet ski" he says with laugh. Still,there is a physiological change that humans experience around age 50. When the brain begins to shrink,so it doesn't fit perfectly in the skull. Mandigo says if you're moving your head vigorously back and forth the brain is moving inside the skull. So if it not matched to the skull's size anymore,it can tear veins. After years of headbanging and trashing about while performing,musicians have suffered repetitive stress injuries. Slayer & Tom Araya developed a pinched nerve and two herniated disks and Megadeth & Dave Mustaine has a spinal condition called stenosis. While Evanescence,Terry Balsamo,Stone Sour & Roy Mayorga had strokes after developing a blood clot and a dissected artery. By this article headbanging is not really good for us. That created such health problems.