From WebMD:Nintendo Game Sparks Acute ‘Wiitis’ (link)
...Spending too much time playing simulated sports with video games may lead to real pain and sore muscles, researchers say.
A letter in TheNew England Journal of Medicine details the first documented case of acute “Wiiitis” caused by extended play on the Nintendo Wii video game system.
A doctor in Spain diagnosed the new variant of Nintendinitis in a healthy 29-year-old male medical resident who woke up one morning with intense pain in the right shoulder. He hadn’t participated in any sports or physical exercise recently, but he had just purchased a Nintendo Wii video game system and had spent several hours playing the tennis video game.
...“If a player gets too engrossed, he may ‘play tennis’ for many hours,” writes Julio Bonis, MD, of the Instituto Municipal de Investigation Medica in Barcelona, Spain. “Unlike in the real sport, physical strength and endurance are not limiting factors.
These people need to get out there and engage in robust, healthy, energizing activties -- like smoking cigars, drinking Starbucks and running a blog.
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