Game consoles 'cause skin sores'

[Netto Azure]

Game consoles 'cause skin sores'

A new skin disorder caused by use of games consoles has been identified by skin specialists.
The condition, dubbed PlayStation palmar hidradenitis, is described in the British Journal of Dermatology.
Researchers outline the case of a 12-year-old girl who attended a Swiss hospital with intensely painful sores on the palms of her hands.
The girl, who had been using a games console regularly, recovered fully after 10 days of abstinence.

Stop playing VG's everyone!!! *Shot* XD

Well I love videogames but sometimes we just play too much eh?

Discuss!

 

[Shinx3000]

Why would you still play after getting sores? Ouch. I don't really play any game consoles, but if I did, I'd never play for too long, maybe at most 1-2 hours a day max. You can't play for long periods without something happening and that proves it.

 

[X Dragoon]

Some end up getting really addicted.

 

[Rayne]

Protip: Regularly agitating any part of the skin regularly with friction will cause swelling. Overtime this skin will harden and become less painful. This is just the body adapting to your obsessive joystick activity. Enjoy. [And no, while it may be that too, it's not that.]

Basically, she's getting blisters that are forming into calluses.

 

[Barb]

Actually, Rayne, the article doesn't describe the condition as a callus. That's just hardening of the skin surface; these are lesions caused by friction and perspiration.

 

[h1tm0nl33]

rarely do i ever talk like this but that study aint shit i played most of the video game consoles i own near nonstop and my hands as small and fat as they maybe are flawless and as smooth as a baby's skin

 

[Mr Bobbleweed]

If you do anything with your hands for too long your skin will get sore. (and that was not innuendo)

 

[$aturn¥oshi]

I don't see why this is named solely after the Playstation. The original Mario Party on the N64 with its "spin the control stick as fast as you can" mini-games ended up causing a lot of players to get sores on their hands. Myself included. Warning labels had to be placed on the packaging. Needless to say, future Mario Parties do not contain such mini-games.

 

[The Outrage]

I don't see why this is named solely after the Playstation.

It would have been appropriate to use a more general term rather than just targetting play station, I doubt this would end well.

Perhaps if they had a larger study referrencing more than a single twelve year old, this would be more convincing. Also this:

"If you're worried about soreness on your hands when playing a games console, it might be sensible to give your hands a break from time to time, and don't play excessively if your hands are prone to sweating."

Yeah, the inside of our videogame manuals give the same advice D:

Though I wonder, where's the study of excessive movie watching can cause your eyesight to go bad.

 

[Æsahættr]

The original Mario Party on the N64 with its "spin the control stick as fast as you can" mini-games ended up causing a lot of players to get sores on their hands.

That game made my brother and I bleed from our palms. Stigmata or pure awesomeness? We didn't know.

 

[Ben Cousins]

I don't see why this is named solely after the Playstation. The original Mario Party on the N64 with its "spin the control stick as fast as you can" mini-games ended up causing a lot of players to get sores on their hands. Myself included. Warning labels had to be placed on the packaging. Needless to say, future Mario Parties do not contain such mini-games.

Ah, so you used the 'spin the control stick using your palm' trick as well?

Rofl I remember the minigame where you're controlling a float boat and the shy-guys are poking you with spears for coins, now that left my hands covered in bubble blisters. :embarass:

 

[Rayne]

Actually, Rayne, the article doesn't describe the condition as a callus. That's just hardening of the skin surface; these are lesions caused by friction and perspiration.

No, but I was stating that the described condition sounds similar to the precursor of establishing a callus.

Like Ben and Æsahættr, I've had this happen to me before and I already see people have brought up the infamous Mario Party game, so this thing happens all the time. I even get these sores while raking the yard if I don't have gloves on. The sores are painful if they tear open, but they go away within 4-5 days. I have calluses where the remnants of those sores used to be which is why I reasoned my explanation the way I did. [Of course saying the Swiss discovered calluses was badly worded on my part. Sorry for that.]

 

[Insanish Danish]

I don't see why this is named solely after the Playstation. The original Mario Party on the N64 with its "spin the control stick as fast as you can" mini-games ended up causing a lot of players to get sores on their hands. Myself included. Warning labels had to be placed on the packaging. Needless to say, future Mario Parties do not contain such mini-games.

Ugh God I remember that. Me and my friends would dread getting one of those mini-games every time we played Mario Party. They gave me awful blisters that wouldn't go away for days.

But in any case...if you play a video game for too long, something like this might happen. It's nothing new.

 

[Quaystor]

Wear gloves, game on.

 

[Zephy]

I already have calluses from playing the guitar so I'm good.

 

[Raves]

ahaha.

What bullshit have the anti-gaming fascists churned from the cesspit of lies now?

I suppose this answers that little lump at the side of my foot.

 

[bell02+]

Everyone knows this! That's how you can tell if you are good. I know I've gotten one playing Marvel vs Capcom among other fighters in the past! (lol, pretending like i'm actually proud of that)

 

[Singing Hare Krishna]

Protip: Regularly agitating any part of the skin regularly with friction will cause swelling. Overtime this skin will harden and become less painful. This is just the body adapting to your obsessive joystick activity. Enjoy. [And no, while it may be that too, it's not that.]

Basically, she's getting blisters that are forming into calluses.

Guitarist's fingers harden up.

 

[AiedailEclipsed]

wow, this is stupid! i mean, I play games nonstop when they come out, my parents worry about that but thats another story for another time, and I work all the time while I play! and at yet no sores...

 

[Tirtodile]

I broke my arm playing Pokemon.

Well that was because I fell off a small cliff while playing Pokemon Yellow. Do not worry, the game survived with its save intact!