UK News Wii puts 10 in hospital a week

[The Helper]

TEN people a week in Britain are hospitalised from playing Wii games.

The growing toll has prompted NHS doctors to warn of the dangers.

Wii-itis sufferers usually have excruciating pain in the right shoulder or knee.

A rheumatology consultant said: “Most are admitted after playing the tennis and running games which involve sudden movements and violent tendon stretching.”

Dr Dev Mukerjee, of Broomfield Hospital, Chelmsford, Essex, said: “There has been a 100 per cent increase in patients complaining of Wii-itis.

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[Jackal]

TEN people a week in Britain are hospitalised from playing Wii games.

The growing toll has prompted NHS doctors to warn of the dangers.

Wii-itis sufferers usually have excruciating pain in the right shoulder or knee.

A rheumatology consultant said: “Most are admitted after playing the tennis and running games which involve sudden movements and violent tendon stretching.”

Dr Dev Mukerjee, of Broomfield Hospital, Chelmsford, Essex, said: “There has been a 100 per cent increase in patients complaining of Wii-itis.

Read the news here.

Better than being a fatass. And wouldn't such 'sudden movements' and 'violent tendon stretching' occur with sports being played in reality?

The Sun delivers again?

 

[CatCat]

Agreed, they are just fat.

 

[seph ir oth]

Stretch before you play then. Fools.

 

[Seb!]

No more than any physical activity.

 

[uberfoop]

If recovery is commonly taking 3 months, it means the idiots are driving themselves into the ground before getting help, are complete lunatics, and need help for more than just their tendons.
The longest recovery time I've ever landed for a tendon before being able to go back to normal activities (ie, running) was a little more than a month, I was being an idiot and tromping on the tendon in question, and the tendon was one that was impossible to not irritate in daily life, prolonging heal time. And the amount of stuff I did to that poor tendon caused me a great deal of pain.
For these people to be grinding a tendon into dust to the point where they need 3 months...it must be EXCRUTIATING.

 

[Prometheus]

Playing active Wii games is like exercise people!

 

[monoVertex]

Stretch before you play then. Fools.

Truly you speak.

Doctors should know this better. Don't sports that include the same kind of movements require stretching?

 

[Asehujiko]

Playing active Wii games is like exercise people!

Exercise that only requires you to do things that make absolutely no sense health wise. The main reason sprained ankles from wiifit aren't counted is because newspapers are too bumb to not count them as another console.

 

[MurderMode]

How about instead of warning of the dangers tell the patients to read the damn manual before playing.

No wait, even better... they need to devise some sort of fail-proof disclaimer that could go a little something like this -

"warning, do not purchase this product if you are an idiot with no common sense otherwise you will be held accountable for your own stupidity and we will not write news articles about it other then for the purpose of making fun of you"

... and we could just stamp it on every product ever made so people will actually learn about the product before jumping in with the 'OH WOOOW COOLLLL... OH... OH NO OH... OH I'M DYING PLS HELP'

+ what kind of douche goes to hospital for exercise strain... these kind of people shouldn't move in general