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Loud Music Can Cause Lung Collapse

Posted by timothy on from the but-so-can-bad-movies dept.

ahrenritter writes "This Reuters article discusses a report in the medical journal Thorax describing the cases of three young men who suffered a lung collapse (pneumothorax) apparently triggered by standing too close to very loud concert speakers. A fourth case occurred in a car that was outfitted with a 1,000 watt bass box. I guess deafness isn't all we have to worry about now!"

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  1. haven't had problem breathing... by sevinkey · · Score: 5, Interesting

    but anyone else ever been at a concert with such low rumbling rediculous bass that you can feel your heart beating a little off?

    this only happened to me with dead voices on air, which uses a rediculous about of computer processing, but this was beyond nautious.