New Disease: “Wiiitis”.

Posted by Alex in Medicine, Toy & Video Games on June 7, 2007 at 2:48 am


Tennis elbow is so 1980s. Today, the disease in vogue is this:

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,’" Bonis, a family practice physician, wrote in a letter to the New England Journal of Medicine.

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4 comments to "New Disease: “Wiiitis”."

  1. Miranda Vink
    June 7th, 2007 at 12:42 pm

    I suspect Wiitis will be a disease with a rather short lifeterm. My own Wii has been gathering dust for a few months now after burning out on Wii Sports and finding out there’s nothing interesting to buy for it except shovelware for kids. It’s great fun when you have visitors but the thing is a huge bore for everything else. Everything about the Wii now screams FAD to me.

  2. Tinderbox
    June 8th, 2007 at 12:48 am

    I’m glad the family practitioner is spending his downtime playing video games instead of reading medical journals.

  3. Dan
    June 8th, 2007 at 10:47 am

    @ Tinderbox: Because heaven forbid someone doesn’t spend every waking moment doing something related to their job!

  4. Sean
    February 9th, 2008 at 8:47 pm

    Wii is pretty entertaning with other people playing with you. [Especially bowling.. Trying to get are 300 games. Still hasn't exist yet in are family.]! However, it is still fun playing by yourself as well.


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