aweirdguy
05-27-2004, 06:24 AM
If you're playing video games for seven hours a day, I mean, we need to talk. About sunshine and homework and your fellow human beings, and the fact that they exist. But it turns out we also need to talk about your hands, especially if you're using rumble controllers. No one reads the manual (I know I don't). And if they do, they probably don't really care about the part where it tells you to take a fifteen minute break every hour that you play. But you won't believe this: some kid in England gave himself a fairly serious injury known as Hand-Arm Vibration Syndrome, because he was using the rumble controller for about seven hours a day. He had numbness and painful pins and needles feelings in his hands and arms, and his hands would swell and turn white in the cold. Then when he'd get warm again they'd turn red and hurt. Sounds delightful! That whole whiteness thing is a separate but associated problem to Vibration Syndrome, called White Finger, or even better -- DEAD FINGER (mwah-ha-ha-ha-ha).
Usually, the people suffering from this injury are people who handle jackhammers or pneumatic drills all day long. But, I guess if you're a really really bad virtual driver you'd better watch out, too. If your hands start to hurt when you're playing, um, that's a not-so-subtle hint for you to take a break and stretch out your hands for a bit (and body while you're at it). The games are pausable, you know. And if it keeps happening, or if they start going NUMB, that's your hands' way of saying: Talk to your parents about seeing a doctor, smartypants.
http://www.the-n.com/games/article.php?ipv_sectionID=43&ipv_articleID=49&partner=msn
dang video game junkies should just go outside and play! its summertime right? hahahahha right just try to pry the controller out of my cold dead hands! um, i mean my white numb hands....
Usually, the people suffering from this injury are people who handle jackhammers or pneumatic drills all day long. But, I guess if you're a really really bad virtual driver you'd better watch out, too. If your hands start to hurt when you're playing, um, that's a not-so-subtle hint for you to take a break and stretch out your hands for a bit (and body while you're at it). The games are pausable, you know. And if it keeps happening, or if they start going NUMB, that's your hands' way of saying: Talk to your parents about seeing a doctor, smartypants.
http://www.the-n.com/games/article.php?ipv_sectionID=43&ipv_articleID=49&partner=msn
dang video game junkies should just go outside and play! its summertime right? hahahahha right just try to pry the controller out of my cold dead hands! um, i mean my white numb hands....