Tag: INJURY

Last week, we discovered that the Xbox Kinect had already claimed its first victim less than 24 hours after landing on shelves in the U.S. -- and, since then, there have been many more casualties. Here's a kid taking a vicious left elbow to the face. Here's an aunt belligerently reminding her nephew who's boss. Here's a brave gamer looking ridiculous -- and miserably failing to land a 360(?) on ...

With concussions becoming a focal point in sports medicine, doctors and trainers are searching for new ways to diagnose these dangerous injuries. According to The Washington Post, for the past year, athletic trainers at the University of Maryland and Ohio State University have been using Wii Fit to test the balance of football players in order to more accurately diagnose concussions. To begin, ...

Last Tuesday, Leigh Fazzina was racing her bike through the woods in Connecticut when she suddenly drifted away from the rest of the cyclists competing in the mini-triathlon. As she was furiously riding downhill toward the main bike trail, her front wheel ran into some gnarly tree roots, and she crashed in a grand fashion. The 36-year old from Philly wasn't familiar with the Connecticut ...

Pitching injuries can cripple a baseball team's roster and its bank account, too. That's why three Northeastern engineering students created a compression shirt that monitors a pitcher's mechanics. When a pitcher becomes tired, his mechanics often worsen. This can lead to a tear in the ulnar collateral ligament (UCL), which -- when healthy -- prevents stress on the elbow. The students found ...

YouTube's vast repository of videos offers video of just about anything imaginable -- from rare concert footage to gadget reviews. But, according to a report from the University of Kentucky posted on LabSpaces, brain injury researchers are using the site for something more noble: head trauma research. Best of all, they've actually made some concrete findings that could help coaches make safer ...

Embedded video from <a href="http://www.cnn.com/video">CNN Video</a> Add another malady to the growing list of debilitating tech afflictions. Not only do some scientists still warn of cell phone-related brain disorders, but some are attributing another injury to mobile phones: cell elbow. (Or should we say cellbow? You heard it here first.) According to HealthDay.com, ...

Soldiers deployed to war zones certainly have it rough, but, in many ways, a soldier getting a trip home early -- due to a disabling injury suffered on the battlefield -- has it even worse. For decades, researchers have been working to find ways to re-grow damaged limbs and muscle tissue, and now scientists have managed to make an important step in that direction -- by growing undifferentiated ...

Well, this was probably bound to happen. A fitness "expert" named Michael Torchia says he's now preparing a class-action suit against NIntendo which will apparently seek to remove its Wii Fit from the shelves unless they add warnings to the product. The offense? Torchia claims that the Wii Fit actually contributes to obesity, essentially because it claims to be something that it's really not ...

Tiny model remote-control (RC) helicopters that fit in the palm of your hand are hugely popular right now, appearing on shelves at nearly every kind of store you can think of and generally selling for $20 or less. However, they are just cheap, miniaturized versions of more serious model helicopters that are larger, heavier, and, as a man in Hong Kong recently discovered, much more dangerous. Lo ...

We've seen the carnage that Wii remotes can inflict: TV's have been destroyed and good old human flesh can barely stand up to the wiicked remotes, but we've never hear of anyone killing their dog before. Poor Kathy White, of Marquette, MI, almost did exactly that while playing 'Wii Bowling.' Right around the recent holidays, her five month old miniature Sheltie, Ozzy, jumped up in front of Kathy ...

Nintendo's fended off class-action lawsuits over "defective" Wiimote straps in the past, and if you remember, they also replaced about 3.2 million of the straps (a/k/a "all of them") around the same time too -- way back in December of 2006. Well, the same lawyer's back for round two with a new, nearly identical suit, but this one also alleges that Nintendo knew that the defect existed and was ...

While this is hardly the first case of a Wii-related injury being reported, it is the first time the injury was given a name. Dr. Julio Bonis -- a Spanish biomedical researcher -- woke up one Sunday morning with what felt an awful lot like tennis elbow. But the thing is, Dr. Bonis wasn't playing tennis the day before. That's when he remembered his Nintendo Wii gaming console. He had been ...