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Nintendo’s
Wii is a huge success, but recently a doctor from Spain discovered that overuse of
the gaming console may lead to a new ailment. According to according to a
report published Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr Julio
Bonis from Barcelona, Spain is affected by Wiitis.
He came up
with the diagnosis after awakening one morning with a searing pain in his right
shoulder, following an intense game of tennis on his Wii for several hours the
night before.
"If a
player gets too engrossed, he may 'play tennis' for many hours," wrote
Bonis, a physician with Spain's
Biomedical Informatics Research Group. "Unlike in the real sport, physical
strength and endurance are not limiting factors.
Though
Bonis suffered a sore shoulder, he warned that the flexibility of the Nintendo
Wii could cause injuries to other parts of the body.
"Future
games could involve different and unexpected groups of muscles," he
warned. "Physicians should be aware that there may be multiple, possibly
puzzling presentations of Wiiitis."
Fortunately the injury is easily treated by
taking ibuprofen and refraining from playing for a week
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