If it’s not tennis elbow, it may be Wiiitis | Technology | Reuters — I got a case from this by throwing an exaggerated hook in the bowling game. The solution was to learn to bowl left-handed.
When Dr. Julio Bonis awoke one Sunday morning with a sore shoulder, he could not figure out what he had done. It felt like a sports injury, but he had been a bit of a couch potato lately. Then he remembered his new Wii. 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.
“The treatment consisted of ibuprofen for one week, as well as complete abstinence from playing Wii video games. The patient recovered fully.”
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.
I got a Wii about three weeks ago and I definitely have a sore shoulder. The bowling and tennis work it over pretty well.
And this is why Sony’s Sixaxis controller is a joke.
And here I thought you’d go blind…
Three vowels is illegal. Unless your Welsh… Then you can have twenty consonants…
2. Not yet. SixAxis hasn’t been fully explored. But, it has the same capabilities. Sony just went for the same form factor as the PSone and PS2. All you need is another company or Sony (God Bless Sony!) to create the device and the PS3 can handle the inputs.
John, is this anything like mouse shoulder ?
Speaking of which, I’m still waiting for you to dig up that old column….
Wiiitis sounds like some kind of bladder problem.
My 20 year old niece managed to hurt herself playing Wii Sports baseball. Then again the most exercise she gets is lifting food to her face.
Will we see Guitar Hero Syndrome next?
DDR Dystrophy?
Tiger Woods on the Wii. Can’t lift my arm above the shoulder without pain. Stupid putting thing angers you, so you swing really hard. Without any weight in your hands, it’s like throwing your arm across the room.
#4
As if an ordinary PS3 controller with motion sensing is innovative, all I can think of is turning it upside down and pretend is a steering wheel.
#9, #4 – Further, they’ll need to sell a few more PS3s for anything done with the SixAxis to matter.