| "Wiiitis" Becomes a Real Medical Problem
Apparently the Nintendo Wii can hurt people. We've heard tales about it, but now a doctor has written a letter to the New England Journal of Medicine that describes what he's dubbed "Wiiitis", an injury with far too many uses of the letter i, if you ask me.
It was not quite tennis elbow, he decided.
"The variant in this patient can be labeled 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.
CNN has the tale.
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"Wiiitis" Becomes a Real Medical Problem
Apparently the Nintendo Wii can hurt people. We've heard tales about it, but now a doctor has written a letter to the New England Journal of Medicine that describes what he's dubbed "Wiiitis", an injury with far too many uses of the letter i, if you ask me.
CNN has the tale.
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