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British researchers have warned playing long in Wii is bad for health and causes a variety of injuries including the most common type of injury “Wii knee”.

British doctors

are seeing a rise in patients suffering from injuries after playing with Wii, the popular game device. It causes them to have sprains, fractures and backaches.

One group have even coined the term “Wii knee” for a specific injury caused by playing long hours in Wii. The Osteopaths at the Leeds Teaching Hospital saw an increase in the number of patients suffering from back aches and blamed it on them for trying to play long hours with their children on Wii.

Another group, The British Society for Surgery of the Hand (BSSH) also has seen an increase in the number of hand injuries caused by excessive use of Wii.

The doctors expect there will be even more patients after Christmas. Wii has been selling really well this year especially in the U.S.; it sold 2 million units in November.

Richard Milner, of the BSSH and a consultant plastic and hand surgeon told The Telegraph:

"We treated a patient this week who had injured herself using a Wii. She was playing tennis with a partner and fractured one of the bones in her finger when he hit the back of her hand with the control."

Dr Andrew Coley, a pediatrician at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital, suffered an injury after playing with Wii, so he advises caution to Wii users.

"This patient had got a Wii for Christmas, hadn't exercised in a while and overdid it. I hurt myself by trying to get an Ace on my serve in the tennis game."

If you are a Wii user, be careful don’t over do it.

Do you have similar injuries after playing Wii games?

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