10 common gaming injuries

The risks of prolonged gaming.

MMGN: Games are so addictive that we sometimes find ourselves playing for hours on end. We tend to ignore that tingling in our hands and the cramp in our fingers as we keep on telling ourselves, “one more kill”, “until the next save point” or “when I reach level 20!". Listed below are ten common gaming injuries that might happen to us as gamers.

[Theparanerds]

Silly article, i enjoyed it!

[Cevapi88]

WoW malnutrition, lol...one of my friends fits that description very well, he's 6'3 and weighs 135lbs

on topic....i wouldnt call this an injury but whenever i played a GT game with my DS, especially the endurance races, my thumb basically gets flattened to hell holding down the x button that it begins to hurt...idk if im the only one who has experienced this

[A Cupcake for Gabe]

When I was playing God of War 3, I looked at it and died of it's beauty..

...I got better...

EDIT: But in all seriousness, I have cramped up in Guitar Hero, and twisted up my fingers playing Heavy Rain on Hard. Some of those QTE combos had me wrapped up like pretzel trying to keep my ass alive.

[K-Tuck]

Too "silly" to be interesting, if you ask me.

[derkasan]

Gamers elbow!

*snicker*

[Emmettcelticfan]

which is Tendinitis which wasn't gaming related, my main cause was through boxing. Mine wasn't a simple trip to the physio, mine is in the wrist, firstly I was on antiinflammatory and plenty of rest which didn't work. Then it was strapped up for a while which didn't work. so surgery was my last option which involed a small incision over the scar tissue lesion, and then shaved the excess tendon material away. And to this day my wrist still has pain in it from time to time and I was forced to give Boxing up after 8 years at it. My wrist started in my A level business exam in summer which resulted in me getting an E LMAO, no worries though I achieved a B overall.

[Lets-Game]

they forgot the main thing, your eyes, mine get red lol. which is bad

[Emmettcelticfan]

apart from Tendinitis I also have photophobia (reaction to bright lights). So majority of times i have sunglasses on anyways so I avoid that problem, though wearing them in clubs does get me some looks of people. Ive got my bono red one's on now as I type this

[Lets-Game]

oh i have that too i guess, not as bad as you it seems but on a sunny summer day going out without glasses is a real pain for me. and I always have my monitor brightness turned down.

[Emmettcelticfan]

you should get em checked out, make your life all that bit easier

[Wardog1368]

lol, yes. My eyes were always red from too much gaming in highschool. It led my dad and some friends to think I was a pot head.

[Wii360BeatsPS3]

Wiimote stuck in the ass is the number one gaming injury for Nintendo fans.

Joke...maybe.

[big_silky]

Soon to be replaced by what's known as M.I.S.T.- Move induced sphincter trauma.

[PS3-247]

happen alot for me lol and cramps from playing SF4 and KZ2.

[e-p-ayeaH]

that happened with me alot back in day. xD

good to know that now official controlers are wireless! back then wireless controlers (from third party companies like logitech) were infrared (where you got to point at a receiver plugged on the controler port) and also they were really expensive!

i remember dropping my ps2 and ps1 on floor cause i tripped on the cables. (no worry both still work)

[Pilkingbod]

I suffer from a severe case of Gamer Rage :@

[karatechoplifter]

I caused plenty of gaming injuries to other people back in the SF2 World Warrior days. That was the first real fight game. People went nuts when they lost to someone who just spammed the same move every fight. Lotsa blood.

[kk1387]

Gamer rage... Oh how I suffer from that.

I've also accidentally thrown a wiimote into a wall, but... ssshhhh

[Pandemic]

Most gamers suffer a rage attack once in their gaming lives. O.O

[opoikl]

from pressing 'X' hours on end while playing GT1 - 3 and 5 Prologue. (I don't like using R1 or R2) Yesterday I got so fed up with it that I bought myself a Driving Force GT, all from a medical standpoint ofcourse :p

[CatGlue]

Lol, I suffer from total boredom, so many crappy games out there, so little good ones, lol

[Roozium]

F**king up your thumb on the Nintendo 64 controller while you try to spin bowser around in Super Mario 64.

[ShadowJetX]

I pretty much had a severe case of RSI on the back of my head. I was in agonizing pain for hours until they gave me a shot of something in the leg. Now I need to take 3 pills every day for 2 weeks, buy myself a new pillow, and go through some physio. I might even need to get my eyes checked out.

And my head still hurts, even though I got back 45 minutes ago.

[jerryhu]

Too bad ...

[xAlmostPro]

ive had bad RSI from when i 1st got guitar hero, the day i got it i played right through on easy and 3 quarters of the way through on medium.. thats was painful..

other than that ive never had anything bad :/..

maybe a few rages lol