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Tennis elbow, or Wiiitis

COMPILED BY NIMI KURIAN

Photo: Bloomberg News.

Handheld game: Nintendo Wii.

When Dr. Julio Bonis awoke one morning with a sore shoulder, he could not figure out what he had done. It felt like a sports injury, but he had been a bit of a couch potato lately. Then he remembered his new Wii. Bonis, 29, had spent hours playing Nintendo’s new video game in which players simulate real movements. Bonis had been playing simulated tennis. It was not quite tennis elbow, he decided. “The variant in this patient can be labelled more specifically as ‘Wiiitis’,” wrote Bonis, a family practice physician, in a letter to the New England Journal of Medicine. "Nintendo’s Wii game can captivate for hours and “unlike in the real sport, physical strength and endurance are not limiting factors,” says Bonis.

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