If It's Not Tennis Elbow, It May Be Wii Elbow

When 29-year-old Dr. Julio Bonis awoke with a sore shoulder, he couldn't figure out why. It felt like a sports injury, except he hadn't played any.

Then he remembered his new 'Wii'.

Bonis had spent hours playing Nintendo's gaming system in which players can simulate real movements. And what was Bonis playing? You guessed it - tennis.

But he decided it wasn't quite tennis elbow and coined it 'Wiiitis'. In a letter to the New England Journal of Medicine, he writes: "The variant in this patient can be labeled more specifically as 'Wiiitis'".

"The treatment consisted of ibuprofen for one week, as well as complete abstinence from playing Wii video games. The patient recovered fully".

Wiiitis is the latest ailment to develop from the video game era, beginning with Space Invaders' wrist in 1981, which was caused by the repeated button mashing required by the popular arcade game.

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