A British doctor was so kind as towrite a letterto the New England Journal of Medicine , handily summarizing what is known about Nintendo - come to injury . The burden : Your Wii want you dead .
The point of the letter was to highlight a new case , in which a fille hurt her foot playingWii Fit . But in the process , it provide a tidy little history of ways people have managed to injure themselves playingvideo biz .
• Nintendinitis : This is the classical videogame accidental injury , and one you ’ve probably try of before . This is a repetitive strain accidental injury in the “ extensor tendon of [ the ] thumb , ” which you could get from pretty much any game console .
• Wiiitis : Sounds like something a lot of the great unwashed haveprobably just slept off :
A healthy 29 - class - old medical occupant awoke one Sunday morning with intense pain in the right articulatio humeri . He did not recall any late injuries or trauma and had not participated in any fun or physical exercise recently . He confer with a rheumatology colleague . The Patte ’s mental test was confident , consistent with acute tendonitis sequestrate to the right infraspinatus .
After just a day with the Wii , this kid was out of commission for a calendar week . What does Nintendo have against healthy tendons ?
• Traumatic Hemothorax : If this sound terrifying , you probably did well in Romance division . Doctors have apparently document the cavities around patient ’ lungs filling with blood after Wii - related falls . This can stamp out you .
• Dislocations : This one is the most predictable of the sight , since honestly , who has n’t gotten carried away trying to Happy - Gilmore - bowl their means through Wii Sports ? And anyway , fake sport / substantial hurt humor is universal .
• Head Injuries : Wiimote straps may preserve your HDTV , but they wo n’t salve your kid sister from getting clocked in the skull while you ’re playing Zelda .
•Wii Fracture : This is the new one :
In the United Kingdom , a salubrious 14 - twelvemonth - onetime young woman present to the exigency department at Horton General Hospital in Banbury ( near Oxford ) , having sustained an hurt to her correct groundwork with associated difficulty in mobilization . She had been playing on her Wii Fit residual board and had descend off , sustaining an sexual inversion injury .
plain , roam your groundwork off the side of the balance display board — which , really , anyone who ’s played Wii Fit has done multiple time — can be enough to crack up a bone in your substructure .
So basically your Wii is actively attempt to maim you and your children , the conclusion . [ NEJM — Thanks , Michael fromMedgadget ! ]
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