Nintendo Wii Menyebabkan Wabah Cedera di Hari Natal?

Nintendo Wii bisa dikatakan adalah konsol game paling inovatif yang pernah ada. Jika selama belasan tahun para gamer hanya memainkan game-nya dengan memencet-mencet tuts keyboard atau tombol gamepad, di Nintendo Wii anda juga diharuskan untuk mengayunkan tangan anda yang memegang controller-nya, misalnya untuk mensimulasikan gerakan mengayunkan stik golf atau melemparkan bola boling.

Dengan cara bermain yang lebih aktif dan penuh gerakan itu, tak heran kalau Nintendo Wii dianggap telah membuat semacam wabah cedera tangan, lutut, atau punggung pada para gamer yang selama ini terbiasa duduk manis ketika bermain dan jarang berolahraga. Dan sebagai konsol yang paling populer dan banyak dicari untuk hadiah Natal, para peneliti dari sebuah RS di Inggris memperkirakan angka ‘kecelakaan’ dalam bermain Wii tahun ini akan meningkat.

clipped from www.telegraph.co.uk This year, the Wii is predicted to be one of the most popular Christmas presents. But doctors said those who spent too long on the games, especially those unused to exercise, were at risk of strain. Researchers at Leeds Teaching Hospital have identified an injury they called “Wii knee”. Last year, osteopaths reported that they saw an increase in back patients after Christmas, and blamed the trend on fathers trying to keep up with their children on the machines. The British Society for Surgery of the Hand (BSSH) also said there had been an increase in the number of injuries caused by excessive use of Wii. Dr Andrew Coley, a paediatrician at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital, said playing the games for too long in the first flights of enthusiasm could lead to injury. He diagnosed one of his patients when he recognised an injury similar to that he had also sustained over-using his Wii. “This patient had got a Wii for Christmas, hadn’t exercised in a while and overdid it.

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