Nintendo related injuries and other problems: Review

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 349, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Jalink, Maarten B ^a   Heineman, Erik ^a   Pierie, Jean Pierre E N ^a,b   Ten Cate Hoedemaker, Henk O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b MEDICAL CENTER LEEUWARDEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; GAME; HAND PAIN; HUMAN; KNEE INJURY; LIFE THREAT; MUSCULOSKELETAL INJURY; NINTENDINITIS; NINTENDO RELATED INJURY; PREVALENCE; SKIN ULCER; TENDINITIS; WII KNEE; WIIITIS; ADVERSE EFFECTS; BODY POSTURE; ENURESIS; FECAL INCONTINENCE; PSYCHOLOGY; SEIZURES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TENDINOPATHY; ULCER; VIDEO GAME; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

ENURESIS; FECAL INCONTINENCE; HUMANS; POSTURE; PREVALENCE; SEIZURES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TENDINOPATHY; ULCER; VIDEO GAMES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 84919884383     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.g7267     Document Type: Article

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