"Wiiitis" gets mention in medical journal

It's official. Now about those Wiidamage insurance claims…

7 June 2007 8:34 GMT / By Amy-Mae Elliott

Dr Julio Bonis, an American physician, has been published in the New England Journal of Medicine after identifying a medical complaint as "Wiiitis".

Apparently it was a self-diagnosis from the doc who was suffering from a sore shoulder and linked the pain back to a session of Wii tennis.

The cure? Ibuprofen, and Wii in moderation. Blast.

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