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Doctor warns against the advances of Nintendo Wiiitis

June 07, 2007 in News comments 21

Doctors. Guardians of life? Purveyors of good health? Or just guilty culprits of stating the complete and utterly obvious? Meet Dr. Julio Bonis, whose overworked experience with Wii Sports tennis left him confused as to the resulting pain in his shoulder. And behold, Wiiitis (Wee-eye-tis) was born.

It had to happen really, the very nature of gameplay associated with the Nintendo Wii lends itself too conveniently to eventual medical criticism regarding repetitive strain injury (RSI), tennis elbow, or some other kind or related tendonitis. So, bearing that in mind, meet Dr. Julio Bonis, who’s taken to labelling physical Wii complaints as Wiiitis. We kid you not.
mistermostyn via gamersquad.com »
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  • 0
    black doom Jun 7, 07
    Seems fairly obvious to me that this was going to happen at some point.
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    bbb7002004 Jun 7, 07
    Wow, physical activity makes you sore, who would have thought? I guess he is one of those, "I finished last in my class at Med. School" docs.
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    nflsmc Jun 7, 07
    I've never had any problems with my Wii. That doctor must be really out of shepe or something. Maybe he should go to Shaq's Fat Camp...
  • 0
    Dragon Jun 7, 07
    I suppose that could happen, given that people tend you move around when playing the wii.
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    Infinite Jun 7, 07
    Haha. Well it's possible to hurt yourself playing Wii Sports if you swing too hard or something but chances of it happening are very slim.

    "Coach I can't participate in gym today."
    "Why not Jake?"
    "I hurt my arm playing videogames."

    Haha I could so picture this happening.
  • 0
    Lithorian Jun 7, 07
    I did hurt my elbog playing Wii not too long ago and had to skip swimming practice for a couple days, so it is possible to hurt yourself if you get over-excited.
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    Storm Jun 7, 07
    LoL Infinite, I gotta use that excuse someday. Yeah, my cousin hurt his wrist playin the Wii too long.
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    BradSK Jun 7, 07
    No one makes a big deal when you get RSI from playing tennis IRL, so why should this be any different?
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    Aegir Jun 7, 07
    Seems that people will do anything for attention eh? I have tiredofhearingbullshit-itis, can I be excused from the internet?
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    Wolfwood Jun 7, 07
    Nintenditis goes (pseudo) next-gen!!!
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    Ameer Jun 7, 07
    Why does everyone assume someone is fat just because they get hurt or they don't like the Wii? Ever thought that maybe, just maybe, that they actually got hurt?

    Lol at the name though.
  • 0
    Rinkydink Jun 7, 07
    I still can't see how people can get really hurt off the Wii without doing something really really stupid. Haha @ label.
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    weskraudaon Jun 8, 07
    I got hurt from play Bowling on Wii Sports.See,now I can prove that the Wii is not good after all.
  • 0
    Phil422343 Jun 8, 07
    but, the fact that the wii sports games require hardly no movement at all to perform the actions means that surely you have an extremely limited chance of causing yourself/others damage?
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    Delslayer Jun 8, 07
    Wow great next thing you know kids are gonna start saying that they've been playing wii too much and their elbows hurt so they can get painkillers.
    I can see it now "Wii, getting kids controled substances since 2007"
  • 0
    Jeterocks Jun 8, 07
    "Teacher, I can't take this test, my wrist hurts to much for me to write today"

    "What happened"

    "Was playing Zelda yesterday for 4 hours and my hand hurts"
  • 0
    Thes10ownsyou Jun 8, 07
    Seriously, it's not like there's going to be a case where all kids in North America, or even the world, will get Wii-itis, since it's when you play it extremely long, like 8 hours, and I don't think anybody plays a Wii for 8 hours straight, nonstop. I certainly don't, but I haven't been in any pain from playing Wii lately.
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    Final Blade Jun 8, 07
    Ok some of the resposes were very funny.
    however im pretty sure getting sore from the wii is possible.
    Its just like you working out with weights for a long time, then you use the bowflex and get very sore, even though your used to benching 200+ pounds, but can only do it up to 140 on the bowflex.
    The reason behind this ppl is called different muscles. Certain machines target different muscles thus making them or you sore.

    In this case being wii, perhaps you targeted a certain muscle in your body and it got sore, cause you aren't used to working with it. Or maybe this doctor is in his late 40s and not used to using exercise.
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    bbb7002004 Jun 8, 07
    The article says the doctor is 29.

    But finalblade is right about everything else. Any repeated motion, or exercise as most people call it, will make you sore when you first start out, or do it for extended periods of time. The idiotic part to this Doc's diagnosis is that this is anything new or different.
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    ProfessorMaple Jun 8, 07
    Can we get an original diagnosis please? This isn't anything new.
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    Weldar Jun 9, 07
    This sort of happened to me when I first got my wii I played it heaps. I don't do much physical activity so my arm was sore for a week.

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