p2pnet - rss feed: Acute Wiiitis: new medical condition
p2pnet.net news:- It’s the Nintendo Wii syndrome. Acute Wiiitis is now an official complaint having been written up in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Through what’s certain to become the control system, of the future, Nintendo Wii owners have merely to gesticulate with their hand units to make things happen on-screen.
This has already proved to be dangerous to TVs and other appliances, and now “A healthy 29-year-old medical resident awoke one Sunday morning with intense pain in the right shoulder,” says an NEJM abstract, going on:
He did not recall any recent injuries or trauma and had not participated in any sports or physical exercise recently. He consulted a rheumatology colleague. The Patte’s test was positive, consistent with acute tendonitis isolated to the right infraspinatus.
After further review of his activities during the previous 24 hours, the patient recalled that he had bought a new Nintendo Wii (pronounced “wee”) video-game system and had spent several hours playing the tennis video game. With the Wii system, the player …..
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Also See:
New England Journal of Medicine - Acute Wiiitis, June 7, 2007
dangerous to TVs - Nintendo has a Wii problem, December 7, 2006
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