Acute Wiiitis

[lord_jeebus]

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I thought I should bring to everyone's attention a new variant of nintendinitis/nintendonitis (search pubmed) that has been reported in the New England Journal of Medicine: Acute Wiiitis(try the link from a medical library if you don't have home access).

An excerpt:

A healthy 29-year-old medical resident awoke one Sunday morning with intense pain in the right shoulder. 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.

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The final diagnosis for the isolated right shoulder pain was Nintendinitis. However, the variant in this patient can be labeled more specifically as "Wiiitis." The treatment consisted of ibuprofen for 1 week, as well as complete abstinence from playing Wii video games. The patient recovered fully. Nintendinitis was first described in 1990,1 and there have been many case reports of injuries related to intensive use of recreational technologies, mainly in children and mainly from intensive use of the extensor tendon of the thumb.2,3,4,5

I hope I get a shoulder pain case on my Step II CS so I can put this in my differential...

NEJM 356:2431-2432

 

[dannylee718]

Nintendonitis... Lol, thats so clever!

 

[Shredder]

One of my concerns and reasons I didn't invest in a Wii myself was actually ergonomics. I felt like prolonged and intense playing may cause probs due to all of those weird motions. Something akin to carpal tunnel

 

[JRockdown]

I wish I could get Wiiitis. So time consuming and expensive.

 

[kdburton]

I remember there was a pro baseball player (pitcher) that was benched at the beginning of this season due to "Guitar Hero-related injuries" to his throwing arm. I can't remember who it was, but I read the article and couldn't stop laughing

 

[DeLaughterDO]

I remember there was a pro baseball player (pitcher) that was benched at the beginning of this season due to "Guitar Hero-related injuries" to his throwing arm. I can't remember who it was, but I read the article and couldn't stop laughing

Awesome! I wonder if I could get out of work for something like that?

jd

 

[Critical Mass]

Check this out:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/0125073wii1.html