The preeminent medical journal NEJM published a case report by a resident physician who developed acute tendonitis due to playing too much with the new Nintendo video game console called Wii (pronounced “wee”).

According to CNN:
“When Dr. Julio Bonis awoke one Sunday 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…”

Wii remote (nicknamed “Wiimote”) is a motion-sensitive controller and allows gamers to direct the on-screen video

game by swinging it like a tennis racket. And this is how one gets wiiitis. Pure logic.

After BMJ published a study on didgeridoo playing as alternative treatment for obstructive sleep apnea, it seems like few things can surprise the readers of medical journals anymore. Life is truly stranger than fiction.

Joshua Schwimmer of KidneyNotes maintains a collection of such hilarious journal articles.

References:
Acute Wiiitis. NEJM, Volume 356:2431-2432, June 7, 2007.
If it’s not tennis elbow, it may be ‘Wiiitis’. CNN, 2007.
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