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Frequent Video Game Use Leads to Finger And Wrist Pain in Kids
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Playing video games for an hour a day can increase wrist and finger pain in kids. Credit: Corbis
The study was inspired by an 11-year-old who noticed his own fingers aching and wanted to know if it related to his video game habit. His rheumatologist dad connected the boy with researchers, who designed the study.
"We came up with a questionnaire and he gave it to all his classmates at school," said Dr. Yusuf Yazici, an assistant professor of medicine at the NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases in New York who served as the study's senior author.
The most troubling news: The younger the kids, the more significant the pain, Yazici told ParentDish. "Age seven might be too early a time to let them play with these devices." Yacizi stops short of recommending that young kids abstain entirely from handheld video games, but he says parents should keep playtime limited.
And earlier last month Iowa State University researchers announced that the hardcore gamers they studied (who play as much as 40 hours per week) have more trouble focusing on tasks requiring longer, more proactive attention than gamers who play only a couple of hours per week. That study, published in the latest issue of the journal Psychophysiology, was conducted by the same researchers who found last spring that high-volume gamers exhibit behavioral traits similar to addicted gamblers.
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ReaderComments (Page 1 of 1)
11-03-2009 @ 12:55PM
Mihir said...what? repetitive motion causes problems?
well....duh.
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11-04-2009 @ 9:25PM
Red73 said...I justed posted on truuconfessions.com about how I thought my son was playing too many video games. I am definitely making him cut back now.
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12-17-2009 @ 12:31AM
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the joint pain.video game is one of the main cause for joint pain of kids.so Taking flex protex daily is a better way to improving your child joint pain.
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