Gaming Pains: Repetitive Strain Injuries

With the popularity of motion sensitive gaming on the increase, health experts are warning that types the types of injuries usually associated with professional sports are on the increase. These include tennis elbow and carpel tunnel syndrome (CTS).

When playing tennis outside, much time will be spent simply chasing loose balls. Tennis on Wii: Sports for example sees the same movements repeated in quick succession, making uncomfortable injuries more likely.

I can vouch for this through my love of Wii games. This year, I became rather addicted the medical simulation title Trauma Centre: New Blood. Zig-zagging sutures and delicately replacing a pace maker really takes its strain on your hands my fingers were painfully locking regularly! Prior to that I had a 48 hour love affair with manic mini-games game WarioWare: Smooth Move. Completing every level, breaking my own personal best and unlocking all the various “Toy Room” bonuses proved to be quite harsh on my limbs, leaving my with painful shoulder for a couple of days after the games completion.

These tips should help you to prevent future damage to yourself the next time you set up your Wii orKinect:

• Take regular breaks: Whilst exercise is good for you it is important to allow your body to recover. A lengthy stint on Wii fencing might not seem strenuous until the next day when you’re aching!

• It might seem a little silly but you should have a good stretch before launching into the physical gaming action. You’ll feel better for it in the long run!

• Change your playing position regularly and attempt to maintain a good posture and this will put less strain on your muscles.

• If you just simply adore motion sensitive gaming, perhaps consider purchasing an Xbox 360 Kinect, which instead of relying on controller dependant motions, the setup measures movements from all parts of your body, easing the strain on singular limbs.

Friendly Fire: Sports – Sim vs. Arcade Style – Main Video (Gaming Debate Show) S02E20

MX 2002 Featuring Ricky Carmichael $19.99 MX 2002 Featuring Ricky Carmichael admirably rides (on two knobby wheels) the line between casual motocross arcade game and hard-core simulation. It should please both audiences equally by offering stunning graphics, good controls, lots of options, and just enough realism. The game offers your standard modes of play. Exhibition lets you jump into a full race on your own, so you can practice …

The Sims 2: Apartment Life Expansion Pack $19.99 Moving Day is Here Your Sims are moving into a brand-new apartment, and their lives will never be the same! Adventure, fun, and drama await them as they meet new people and explore their new neighborhood. Will they take their kids to the local playground, mingle in coffee shops, or hit the park to learn from the breakdancers? Close quarters mean new opportunities-move in with compatible roomie…

The Sims 2 $26.99 The Sims was one of the most popular games ever made. In it, players micromanage the lives of a family of virtual people, or Sims, and influence their paths toward success or something akin to a nervous breakdown. Its open-ended blend of cartoonish behavior and everyday living is unique in an art form otherwise obsessed with carnage and sports. With The Sims 2, long-time fans now have a deeper gam…

The Sims 3: Fast Lane Stuff $12.95 For the first time ever in a stuff pack, your Sims can get new cars along with furnishings, d?cor, and apparel in four distinct lifestyle themes. Whichever lifestyle they choose, The Sims 3 Fast Lane Stuff takes your Sims on the rides of their lives!Features include: •Give your Sims the rides they?ve always dreamed of the lifestyles that go with them.•Enjoy four all?new styles of fashion…

JumpStart Advanced 5th & 6th Grade 3 Learning Adventures with over 35 activities! Pack extreme fun and exciting adventure into learning while you master 5th and 6th grade curriculum.  Stop the villainous Dr. X from destroying the City in JumpStart 5th Grade! Search out the clues, unlock secret codes, and expose the villain’s menacing plan. Master over 25 skills in Math, Reading, History, Science and more.  Enter a myst…

New Encore Scrabble – Champion Edition Compatible With Windows Xp/Vista $12.07 …

New Ubi Soft Imagine Party Babyz Nintendo Wii Both Singleplayer And 1-4 Player Multiplayer Support $0.96 Imagine Party Babyz brings the fun of the popular Babyz franchise to the Wii in the form of a play date neither you or your child will soon forget. Reminiscent of earlier releases in the franchise where players nurture individual babies while mothers and fathers are away at work or on errands, Imagine Party Babyz expands on the idea with the twist of placing players in the role of a baby in daycar…

New Thq Lets Ride Dreamer Compatible With Windows 98/Me/2000/Xp …

The War of the Ring Board Game $69.99 While the Fellowship of the Ring advances towards Mordor, the Dark Lord Sauron seeks the location of the Ring-bearer, while unleashing his armies against the last strongholds of the Free Peoples in this grand strategic simulation of Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy. Featuring easy-to-learn, dice-based mechanics, this impressive game comes complete with a massive gameboard depicting a large full…

STRAT-O-MATIC Pro Football Description Not Available….