Play alot of video games? If you have Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI) or early signs of RSI in your fingers, hands and forearms, then you may need to put down the controller. Some kids play video games so much that the skin on their fingers and thumbs is actually turning red, blistering, peeling and even callusing! It's become somewhat of an epidemic. A 13-year-old girl conducted a study on this very problem, which is now referred to as "PlayStation Thumb". The PlayStation Thumb study has now gained worldwide attention since being published in a medical journal.
The South African teen, Safura Abdool Karim, has become the youngest person ever to be published in the country’s main medical publication. Karim conducted a study into a condition she has called “PlayStation Thumb”. Initially, the study was for a school science project. Karim question 120 of her schoolmates, 60 boys and 60 girls, on whether they suffered problems after playing games. 8 boys and 7 girls reported redness, blisters and tingling of the thumb. Karim writes in her report that it is similar to RSI: “Although RSI is not new, in the past it occurred mainly among adults. Computer games are creating new medical problems, such as PlayStation thumb, which are becoming common in children."
Basically these days instead of kids getting normal things like skinned knees from falling on the playground outside, they will be getting skinned thumbs from rapidly pressing on their PS2 controlers indoors. Sad day indeed. America wonders why we have so many overweight kids, not to mention it's also a FACT that America kids are getting dumber! Yes, you heard that right - dumber and test scores around the US prove that. For the love of god, pick up a book and a football and go outside. Make America proud, or at least attempt to.
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