Damn gaming arthritis

damn the me3 MP is addicting.Played a bunch yesterday and some Dues Ex and now my left thumb is sore as hell on the joint...I never had it happen before but it started about a year ago off and on =/

anybody else ever get pains like that from gaming?

I need some icy-hot.That seemed to help it before,not sure why,maybe the joint's bad 0__o

I've got consistent arthritis type stuff that the doctors can't explain. Gaming doesn't exactly make it better. Costs too much damn money to keep looking into it so I just deal with it.

If I play fro long periods of time I do thumb excercises to try and keep my thumbs limber. When I play Assasins Creed I get pains in my left hand from holding LT to free run.

JrTapia1991 wrote:damn the me3 MP is addicting.Played a bunch yesterday and some Dues Ex and now my left thumb is sore as hell on the joint...I never had it happen before but it started about a year ago off and on =/

anybody else ever get pains like that from gaming?

I need some icy-hot.That seemed to help it before,not sure why,maybe the joint's bad 0__o

There's actually a scientific name for this condition. It used to be common in older people that did years of repetitious work, such as working on assembly lines. Now it is common of younger age groups. The main cause being videogames, so chances are that you are simply part of that statistic.

I have been lucky enough to not develop the problem, even after 20 years of gaming. I suspect that the fact that I have always done hand stretches during long periods of gaming. Drumming may have also helped keep this condition at bay, but this is all purely speculation.

Shotgun Dismemberment wrote:

JrTapia1991 wrote:damn the me3 MP is addicting.Played a bunch yesterday and some Dues Ex and now my left thumb is sore as hell on the joint...I never had it happen before but it started about a year ago off and on =/

anybody else ever get pains like that from gaming?

I need some icy-hot.That seemed to help it before,not sure why,maybe the joint's bad 0__o

There's actually a scientific name for this condition. It used to be common in older people that did years of repetitious work, such as working on assembly lines. Now it is common of younger age groups. The main cause being videogames, so chances are that you are simply part of that statistic.

I have been lucky enough to not develop the problem, even after 20 years of gaming. I suspect that the fact that I have always done hand stretches during long periods of gaming. Drumming may have also helped keep this condition at bay, but this is all purely speculation.

Carpal Tunnel or RSI (repetitive strain injury)

I was looking it up and yeah it seems to be that =/

maybe I slept on it wrong.Last summer I thought my arm was broken at the elbow it hurt so bad if I bent my arm,then it suddenly went away the next day,like the bone was badly bruised

The Adli Corporation wrote:

Shotgun Dismemberment wrote:

JrTapia1991 wrote:damn the me3 MP is addicting.Played a bunch yesterday and some Dues Ex and now my left thumb is sore as hell on the joint...I never had it happen before but it started about a year ago off and on =/

anybody else ever get pains like that from gaming?

I need some icy-hot.That seemed to help it before,not sure why,maybe the joint's bad 0__o

There's actually a scientific name for this condition. It used to be common in older people that did years of repetitious work, such as working on assembly lines. Now it is common of younger age groups. The main cause being videogames, so chances are that you are simply part of that statistic.

I have been lucky enough to not develop the problem, even after 20 years of gaming. I suspect that the fact that I have always done hand stretches during long periods of gaming. Drumming may have also helped keep this condition at bay, but this is all purely speculation.

Carpal Tunnel or RSI (repetitive strain injury)

The latter I believe.

The only game that makes my hands hurt is dynasty warriors.. Sooo much button mashing.

My hands ware out quick if i have to spin the analogs but i've always had trouble with that and it doesn't help that the motor skills in my hands never developed.

know what you mean man, I've had something similar to this. Though I know I don't have any full blown disorder. I've always had thin muscles in my hands, and gaming+violin+computer has fine-tuned it. I will after about 7-8 hours of gaming start having little discomforts in my hands, so that's usually when I stop.

Stretches are your best friend. I do them all the time anyways since I play guitar. But doing some stretching everyday should alleviate most of this problem.

seems to be gone for now.......

had it bad one time in my right hand right in the middle of the palm,my god it was sore

I remember blackhawk gunning in BC2 always made my thumbs cramp

Pariah wrote:know what you mean man, I've had something similar to this. Though I know I don't have any full blown disorder. I've always had thin muscles in my hands, and gaming+violin+computer has fine-tuned it. I will after about 7-8 hours of gaming start having little discomforts in my hands, so that's usually when I stop.

7 to 8 hours of anything will probably give you problems dude

Zillah wrote:I remember blackhawk gunning in BC2 always made my thumbs cramp

me too...I'd be concentrating real hard trying to see where people are on the ground then after awhile I'd be like...goddamn my thumbs hardly work.

Dave wrote:

Pariah wrote:know what you mean man, I've had something similar to this. Though I know I don't have any full blown disorder. I've always had thin muscles in my hands, and gaming+violin+computer has fine-tuned it. I will after about 7-8 hours of gaming start having little discomforts in my hands, so that's usually when I stop.

7 to 8 hours of anything will probably give you problems dude

You forget, I'm too awesome.

i hate it when i get gaming arthritis
you cant play anything but fable at that point

it's still been kinda hurting me off and on the past couple days.Played some BF3 yesterday and it didn't really hurt tho

I was doin them so dirty on metro that this lvl 100 guy wanted me to join his clan XD

My left thumb hurts really bad from pressing the space bar so much in tetris.