LOL. I don't doubt it, but the victims are totally clueless. And I wonder how many times - each holiday season - will we see stories like this.

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The games, which encourage players to mimic the actions of sports, can cause painful sprains and fractures, they added.

Although the games have been praised for encouraging people to be more active, using them incorrectly or for long periods can lead to injuries.

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.

Richard Milner, of the BSSH and a consultant plastic and hand surgeon, said that he expected the number of patients to increase over Christmas. He said: "We treated a patient this week who had injured herself using a Wii. She was playing tennis with a partner and fractured one of the bones in her finger when he hit the back of her hand with the control."

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. I hurt myself by trying to get an Ace on my serve in the tennis game." Players using a Wii game

And the story kind of ends.

Interesting. I actually had something like that happen at my house. My dad and uncle were playing wii boxing, and every few punches, they started to move closer to the TV........until BAM! My dad smoked my uncle in the shoulder. That was a pretty good one. I don't really understand how back injuries can occur........maybe I'll learn in ~20 years?

I once pulled my shoulder playing bowling on the Wii. I blame Wii Sports.

its bullshit, another anti Nintendo news article.

Its either this or violent games damaging wii youth

Newspapers suck

Have people become so lazy that this simple kind of exercise causes them to harm themselves? Holy cow!

Natural selection will prevail!

Wii Knee? Are they ripping off the "tennis elbow" term now?

It seems a lot of these injuries are coming from people playing wii sports. Nintendo really should bundle the wii with a less dangerous game.

I agree. They should add pictures with suffering people on the Wii Box like they added on the cigars packs.

Their next research should be injuries that can occur while walking on the street.

What does this tell us???

Jeep people are way to lazy and unfit in todays world.

I stuck a pen in my eye.
Im suing the pen company