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"Gaming injuries"

People say videogames are harmless, yeah right, whats your worst gaming injury(s)? mine would be blistered thumbs, an extremely sore wrist after a prolonged period of Unreal Tournament and a very annoying eye twitch.

Also at times Quake III makes me feel sick - I know Ive read many cases of people suffering from motion sickness - To long playing Quake and I just want to hurl!!

Track and Field and Olympic Gold - Blistered thumbs and really bad case of aching wrists - Couldnt play anything for about a week after that!!

I wore my fingernail right down to the skin after too much Track & Field on the PS. OK bit of a sad 'injury', but probably qualifies more than 'having to lie down for a bit'.

My stepdaughter got severe bruising (her mum whacked her for throwing her megadrive controller around the room).

Edgy wrote:

Are you sure you were playing on videogames? :)

lol!

Time_Warp wrote:
> i have had to lie down sometimes and take a rest.

Are you sure you were playing on videogames? :)

hmmmm

i have had to lie down sometimes and take a rest.

i got the strain one on my neck and eye problems for a few minutes.

Edgy wrote:

Epilepsy
> (which you can get for playing any videogames)

Nope that's not right either. You can trigger an epilieptic fit from playing video games but you develop it.

The most common injuries are:

Poor eyesight
Dizziness
Epilepsy (which you can get for playing any videogames)
Repetative Strain Injury


I only have the first one....