More Wii Warriors Are Playing Hurt
source: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/21/health/21wii.html?_r=1&src=twt&twt=nytimes
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- DeliaTheArtist
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"To say that Wii injuries are an epidemic would be an overstatement, but they are proliferating along with the popular video-game system. Interviews with orthopedists and sports medicine physicians revealed few serious injuries, but rather a phenomenon more closely resembling a spreading national ache: patients of all ages complaining of strains and swelling related to their use — and overuse — of the Wii.
Call it Wii Shoulder. Or Wii Knee. If there is an epidemic of anything, it probably falls under a broader label: Nintendinitis.
“Skateboarding, snowboarding, you name it,” said Dr. William N. Levine, the director of sports medicine at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center. “Take the newest fad, and there’s always a slew of specific orthopedic injuries associated with it.”
Call it Wii Shoulder. Or Wii Knee. If there is an epidemic of anything, it probably falls under a broader label: Nintendinitis.
“Skateboarding, snowboarding, you name it,” said Dr. William N. Levine, the director of sports medicine at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center. “Take the newest fad, and there’s always a slew of specific orthopedic injuries associated with it.”
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CalgarC
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i don't own, want, or use a wii
- 2 years ago
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CalgarC
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jennatar
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My old company SO predicted this in 2006. (I came up with the next-to-last one!)
- 2 years ago
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mattbrawn
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If anything I'd say the Wii could do better for us than playing 'conventional' games consoles. At least for the majority of the games that are played on the Wii, users are standing and moving around, rather than sitting on their bum bums.
- 2 years ago
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mattbrawn
