Wiiitis is real, MRI machine has the proof
Put down the Wii-mote and slowly back away. That’s medical advice, as informed by a recent article in the journal Skeletal Radiology. The paper documents the case of a 22 year-old gamer who presented with shoulder pain after playing Wii Bowling. An MRI scan revealed that the patient had “diffuse areas of increased intramuscular T2 signal intensity” (spasming?) in various muscles of the upper body, plus some edema (swelling caused by fluid.)
It seems the doctors carrying out the investigation didn’t hesitate to diagnose acute wiiitis, and treated the now-acknowledged condition with non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and a lyphedema wrap (a tight bandage.)
Doctors Nett, Collins and Sperling then set to work writing up this unusual case for publication, attributing the condition to “deceleration forces.” Apparently, stopping your swing too abruptly subjects your muscles to “significant eccentric loading”. So don’t do it. You can have significant loading, as long as it’s not eccentric; or you can have eccentric loading, so long as it isn’t also significant, but indulge in both at once and you risk never playing Wii again. I would speculate.
Dr Gregory House couldn’t have diagnosed it better himself.
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