Back Pain – The Latest in Video Game Related Maladies
By Andrew on Wednesday, August 15th, 2007 at 2:26 AM PST In Game Related Science, Gamer Life
They make us fat, violent, anti-social, and also contribute toward arthritis. And now, they’re a cause of back pain.
Some experts in the field of physiotherapy have named video games as a potential source of back-related problems. It all has to due with the hours and hours of sitting in the same place.
“This seems on the cards considering the associated health problems of obesity, reduced levels of activity, and the popularity of passive entertainment systems such as PlayStations that encourage further inactivity and prolonged sitting posture in the adolescent age group,” Duncan Reid, New Zealand Manipulative Physiotherapists Association spokesman, said in a recent Stuff.co article.
What triggered this concern was an increasing number of lower back pain in teenagers. Back problems are apparently common in those who do too little and those who do too much, and obviously gamers fall into the former category.
The moral of the story is, as always, when you’re playing video games for hours on end, stop and do something else for a while every now and then. It will help you live longer.
via Stuff.co.nz
That makes sense really, not just the sitting still, but when you play video games you tend to lean into the game.. for hours!
It’s been a long time since I played a game for hours on end. I think the longest I play games now is 2-3 hours just because I don’t have the time anymore to dedicate more of my free time to them. So I guess keeping busy has helped me dodge another one of life’s bullets
It does make sence, i used to have back pains and my friend had it in his neck after being addicted to maplestory
but it’s over now since i use a 15 minutes break every 90 minutes 
yup, i conquer, my back starts hurting after a few rounds of resistance online, but my chair sucks, maybe a better chair would help with back pain?
I like being fat, violent, anti-social and having lower back pain.
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