Video Games Can Cause Injuries Too. Here Are Ten of Them

5. Contact Injuries

Interactive gaming has given us more than just muscle pulls. Nintendo Wiimotes and slipshod behaviour are the perfect recipe to make gamers ‘boast’ of smashed faces, swollen eyes, broken teeth and cut hands. As if the cost of smashed panes and screens wasn’t enough.

Yes, interactive games from Nintendo and Microsoft are responsible for a number of injuries which are often quite severe to say the least. While you’re playing with your friends with the Kinect or with a Wiimote, don’t look at them and your cat saying “I’ve still got 8 left.”. Avoid yourself medical bills and wear the wristbands and keep stuff out of your ‘hit range’.