OT Breakdancers - Any of you suffer from "Headspin Hole"?

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The dancer in this case, a man in his early 30s, had been practicing various types of headspins for more than 19 years. He reported training about five times a week for 1.5 hours at a time; about two to seven minutes of each session would be spent putting direct pressure on the top of his head.

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The bulbous lump of tissue, which doctors surgically removed, had become tender to the touch and was associated with a circle of hair loss. These hairless bumps on the head are also commonly called "headspin holes," and more broadly, the condition is sometimes called "breakdancer overuse syndrome."

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"Despite 'headspin hole' being known within the breakdancing community, it is scarcely documented in the medical literature," the doctors noted in a paper published Thursday (Oct. 10) in the journal BMJ Case Reports. Based on their results, treating these bumps on the head with surgery "appears to be a successful intervention," the physicians said.

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The man said he noticed a bump, accompanied by hair loss, forming on his scalp. And in the past five years, the bump had grown and become tender to the touch.

"The presence of the lesion and associated discomfort were aesthetically displeasing to the patient, but the protuberance had not hindered the patient from continuing his head-spinning activities," the man's doctors noted

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Upon examining the bump, doctors noted that the skin above it moved easily, suggesting the mass was sandwiched between the skin and the skull. A structural scan of the man's head confirmed this was the case, and it also showed that the skin above the bump and the skull below had grown thicker than the tissues surrounding them

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