How can video games play havoc with kids joints and other body parts?
Video Games Can Play Havoc With Kids’ Joints HealthDay By Jennifer Thomas, HealthDay Reporter – Mon Oct 19, 8:49 PM PDT SATURDAY, Oct. 17 (HealthDay News) — Kids who play video games for more than an hour a day increase their chances of having wrist and finger pain, a new study has found. The lead author of the study knows this all too well. Deniz Ince, who’s 11 years old, got the idea to study joint pain among his classmates at Rossman Elementary in St. Louis, Mo., after noticing that his fingers ached while squeezing oranges. Deniz, an avid Wii player, wondered if his video game habit was the culprit. With the help of his rheumatologist dad and researchers from New York University, the fifth-grader handed out questionnaires to 171 of his schoolmates who were 7 to 12 years old. About 80 percent of them reported playing with game consoles (Xbox, PlayStation, Wii and the like) or hand-held devices (including iTouch, iPhone and PlayStation Portable). Roughly half of them said they used
