Injuries caused by Wii gaming recognized by Medical Journal

The Spanish doctor Dr. Julio Bonis of Barcelona’s Research Group in Biomedical Informatics published an article about Wii Sports injuries in the New England Journal of Medicine. After he had been playing too much Wii Sports Tennis, he had a painful shoulder injury. A friend of his had the same problems too and so mister Bonis named his injury ‘[tag]Wiiitis[/tag]‘, pronounced like this: wee-eye-tis.

People who play Wii games more often could even have more serious problems. Dr. Julio Bonis has observed a few other Wii gamers and said that it is an under diagnosed condition. In 1990 a Wisconsin physician had a thumb injury after playing too long on the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). He called his condition ‘Nintendinitis‘.

Source: DailyTech

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