Singer Miguel tweeted that he just \"got caught up in the moment\" when he leapt over the crowd at the Billboard Music Awards and landed on a fan's face Sunday night. <\/p>\n
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The televised accident serves as a reminder that although most concert-goers find themselves in the medical tent because they're dehydrated, more serious injuries can happen. <\/p>\n
For instance, concert medical tent volunteer Penny Miller said she watched in horror when a Rolling Stones fan fell from a third-floor stadium balcony, bounced off the second floor balcony and fractured his skull at the Oakland Coliseum in 1981. <\/p>\n
\"He only lived to tell the tale because he received medical care right on the spot,\" said Miller, a nurse practitioner in Sacramento, Calif., who has volunteered for Rock Medicine since 1977. <\/p>\n
Concert injuries vary depending on the performer, said Gordon Oldham, who directs Rock Medicine, a 40-year-old volunteer organization that provides free \"nonjudgmental\" medical care at more than 700 concerts and events in Northern California each year. <\/p>\n
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For example, the Grateful Dead fans are going to have different medical needs than the hard-core punk crowd, which forms \"mosh\" pits at in front of the stage, where people slam-dance into each other, said Oldham. <\/p>\n
\"There's pit etiquette,\" Oldham said. \"If somebody falls down, they help them back up.\" <\/p>\n
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