Zeus
06-06-2007, 06:18 PM
When a DR. Julio Bonis awoke one morning with a sore shoulder, he could not figure out exactly what he done the night before in order to derive such pain. And then it hit him, it was his Wii console! Wiiitis as it be known as going some way into becoming one of the great video game related injuries, perhaps even having the potential to surpass the Space Invader's wrist of 1981. The cure? A complete rest from video games as well as pain killers :).
Bonis, 29, had spent hours playing Nintendo's new video game in which players simulate real movements. Bonis had been playing simulated tennis.
It was not quite tennis elbow, he decided.
"The variant in this patient can be labelled more specifically as 'Wiiitis,'" Bonis, a family practice physician, wrote in a letter to the New England Journal of Medicine.
Wiiitis -- pronounced "wee-eye-tis" -- is the latest ailment to develop from the video game era, beginning with Space Invaders' wrist in 1981, which was caused by the repeated button mashing required by the popular arcade game.
News Source: <A href="http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSN0616721120070606" target="_Blank">Reuters.com</a>
Bonis, 29, had spent hours playing Nintendo's new video game in which players simulate real movements. Bonis had been playing simulated tennis.
It was not quite tennis elbow, he decided.
"The variant in this patient can be labelled more specifically as 'Wiiitis,'" Bonis, a family practice physician, wrote in a letter to the New England Journal of Medicine.
Wiiitis -- pronounced "wee-eye-tis" -- is the latest ailment to develop from the video game era, beginning with Space Invaders' wrist in 1981, which was caused by the repeated button mashing required by the popular arcade game.
News Source: <A href="http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSN0616721120070606" target="_Blank">Reuters.com</a>