Wii is good practice tool for surgeons, says study

The Wii’s not just a games machine for kids and pensioners, oh no. It’s actually a valuable training tool for top class surgeons. Nintendo are literally saving lives. Believe it. A study released by the Banner Good Samaritan Medical Centre in Phoenix, Arizona, claims that playing Wii games that require delicate hand movements improves the skills needed to plunge in and fix up the innards of the human body.

It’s not just any old game - playing Ninjabread Man would instead lead to the destruction of humanity for instance. Marble Mania, known as Kororinpa over here, is one such example given, however. The small, precise movements needed to roll your ball to the goal will help train your hands for surgery. Alternatively, if you want to save some money, buy a whole bunch of those novelty games where you have to tilt the ball bearings through the maze and into the holes. Far cheaper.

Oh, and we can’t end this post without the predictable joke about how they should be playing Trauma Centre instead, can we? How about Manhunt 2, though. Finding new ways to carve people up would certainly increase speed in the operating room.

Source: New Scientist via BBC

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