Top 10 Video Game Injuries
06. Eye Strain
While pulling a muscle or tearing a tendon seriously sucks, losing your sight has to be right up there with completely disproportionate potential injuries from gaming that totally suck!
Seriously, you NEED your eyesight - and not just for gaming! How will you know if the pizza has the right toppings if you can't see it? How can you drive with bad eyes (well you CAN but you shouldn't), and then there is the even more crucial example - how are you going to see the new Star Wars movies?!
Okay all kidding aside, the thing about this one is it may very well be one of the most common video game related injuries - but how could we tell?
Ignoring for the moment that pretty much every gamer we know wears glasses - specifically corrective lenses in their glasses - we don't actually know WHY.We would have to ask them - and even if we DID ask them (and they did not tell us to mind our own business) THEY may not know that it was gaming that caused their eye problems.
What we do know is this: prolonged screen viewing is directly connected to the sort of eye strain that requires corrective lenses. So what can you do about that? Happily you CAN do something:
1. Keep the room softly lit so that there isn’t such a direct contrast between the screen and your environment;
2. Keep the screen at least 20 to 40 inches away from your eyes;
3. Keep the top of your screen at eye level so that you look slightly down at the screen – never have the screen positioned so you have to look up because that promotes both eye strain AND posture issues;
4. Keep the screen clean believe it or not that can really help;
5. Probably the best thing you can do though is to take a break often.
There you go. Serious solutions to a serious video game injury potential. Remember, don't be a victim, especially if you live in a place that has not legalized medical marijuana. Because only dopes smoke dope! Wait... Only smokes dope... No... Only dope smoke... Don't be a victim!
05. Lower Back Pain
You know how when someone annoys you, you tell them they are a pain in your back? That saying has a basis in reality...
According to a study that was done in Finland, consistently long sessions of video game play can lead to an increased likelihood of lower back pain. And lower back pain sucks! It can keep you from gaming comfortably for one thing...
There is likely something to this one - the study that was done in Finland used children who played video games for more than 2 hours a day as its test pool, and it noted that they were more inclined to have lower back pain.
We're okay with that choice mind you, children can be so annoying, hogging the Xbox so much, but even so they don't deserve low back pain!
The important take-away message from this is that there is an association between musculoskeletal symptoms and computer and gaming console usage. That and we need to save the children! Save the children - take away their consoles!
No? Okay then it is time to start promoting ergonomic measures as a solution to this growing plague on gaming.
The experts say that reminding your gamers (all of them, not just the little ones) to change their posture and position every five minutes or so is a really good start. Another useful tactic is to shift from sitting to laying on their sides every half hour while gaming.
Of course that only applies to console play - be sort of hard to do that with your PC... Unless you have a really hot gaming laptop, then you could play in bed. Hey! That is our new focus point! Game in bed!
Seriously though, all of this can improve the postural problems that are now associated with video game playing so it really is food for thought.
been playing games since i was around 5 - 6 and the internet since i was 13;
1) I happen to enjoy eating/sleeping, so I haven't died yet
2) My limbs still function the way the average non-gamer's does, I can walk/run, comfortably pick up objects of varying sizes and my body only feels sore if I do something intenseive, like move big furniture (ie couches) for 1+ hours straight.
3) Still have 20/20 vision
I won't outright reject the notion that gaming can be part of the cause to certian injuries/death, but there's more to it.
Gonads!!
I'd say most of them are mostly ue to stupidity...
i don't understand any of them
I don't wear/need glasses
Hey
Also, on the last one, I'm on more morphine than most palliative-care patients as I have a chronic pain disorder secondary to a genetic condition that involves multiple joint dislocations pretty much every time I move, but I do find gaming a great help, provided I'm not playing fighting games (I used to be a Tekken tourney champ, but nowadays it makes my hands hurt badly within a very short time): not only is there the pain relief/endorphins aspect, but there's also what many people with chronic illnesses like to call "distraction therapy". Having something to take your mind off the fact that you're in pain all the time, especially when the pain meds only work to a certain point and can't get rid of all your pain, can be a real help.
On the death by Internet addiction bit - 3 days and 5 days for the 2 listed examples makes me wonder if dehydration might not have been quite a notable factor. After all, 3 days without water can kill you...
Well... this gamer wears glasses... and nope, it wasn't gaming that caused me to need 'em. I've had corrective lenses for shortsightedness since I was just 4 1/2 years old. My eyesight has deteriorated over the years, but I have genetic issues, I read even more than I game & I'd taught myself to read by the time I was 2 1/2 years old, so reading likely has much more to do with it in my case.
Hang on... you lot think a stroke is *worse* than fracturing one's cervical spine? You know breaking your neck can kill you outright, don't you?
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