Videogame-Related Illness and Injury: A Review of the Literature and Predictions for Pokémon GO!

Games for Health Journal

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 9-18

  Pourmand, Ali ^a   Lombardi, Kevin ^a   Kuhl, Evan ^a   O'Connell, Francis ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Injury

Indexed keywords

CREATINE KINASE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BLOOD; CASE REPORT; CHILD; COMPLICATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURIES; INJURY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY; RECREATIONAL GAME; VIDEO GAME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CREATINE KINASE; FEMALE; GAMES, RECREATIONAL; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; VIDEO GAMES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 85013140394     PISSN: 2161783X     EISSN: 21617856     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/g4h.2016.0090     Document Type: Review

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