This is no joke. A doctor in Spain has diagnosed a patient with "Acute Wiiitis" - an ailment caused by playing too much of Nintendo's video game Wii Sports Tennis.
In a brief posted to the New England Journal of Medicine's Web site Dr. Julio Bonis of Barcelona's Research Group in Biomedical Informatics states:
"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.
After further review of his activities during the previous 24 hours, the patient recalled that he had bought a new Nintendo Wii (pronounced "wee") video-game system and had spent several hours playing the tennis video game. With the Wii system, the player."
Did I just hear a lawyer say "lawsuit"?
Would you go out and play "serveral hours" of real tennis if you just bought a new racket? No. Does a real tennis racket need to have a warning label that states excessive use could lead to acute tendonitis? The Wii touts the benefit of being interactive/more physical as compared with other gaming stations. He got what he deserves.