Break dancers are getting weird lumps from extensive headspinning but NYC pioneers say newbies are just doing it wrong

Raygun’s year just got even worse.Doctors are warning break dancers to avoid head spinning after performers developed cone-like lumps on their noggins — with one B-boy even having to get it surgically removed, according to a new medical journal report.The deformed dancer grew the bulbous mound of tissue — dubbed a “break dance bulge” — due to years of friction between his scalp and the ground, according to a study published in the British Medical Journal Thursday.The unnamed dancer, who was in his 30s and did five head spins a week,  underwent a successful surgery to remove the benign mass from between his skull and skin, the report said.Surgeons also shaved off a thickened portion of his head.“Despite ‘headspin hole’ being known within the break dancing community, it is scarcely documented in the medical literature,”  doctors wrote in the report, noting the condition is also linked to hair loss and “tenderness.”But Bronx breaking pioneer Tony “Mr.

Wave” Wesley  told The Post the problem was fixed long ago with the right protective gear and “technique.”“Some of my crew realized they were burning their hair away, so we went to padded hats and bike helmets — and that was in the 80s,” Wesley said.The bizarre bumps are likely linked to the “wrong mechanics of going down on the floor” with too much force, he said.“It’s the pounding, not the spinning,” he said.  “It’s no different than lifting weights: If you don’t have proper technique, you’re going to hurt yourself.”He said breakers should lower themselves onto the ground in a slower, handstand-style instead of diving dome-first.Many newbies, however, don’t know the safer style because they’re “learning from the internet” instead of “veterans” on the street, he said.“Now these kids go straight into the power moves.It’s riskier what they do today,” he said.

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