Gaming Injuries

well it destroyed my social life and the ability to interact with people, but that's just me :p

happened to me too, it takes like 2-3 months to fully recover tho. you should be patient. Btw after it recovered, didnt happen againin last 1.5 years.

Buy a comfortable gaming mouse, and grip it correctly, so you won't have problems with your fingers.

It happened to me as well. But it is the other side of my hand. First 2 fingers, a bit of my thumb and back of the hand. Wrist pain & stiffness too, of course. It came & went... but 20 years later, I had carpel tunnel surgery. :P thanks Veterans Administration! lol

If you're planning on a desktop soon anyhow you can buy a USB keyboard and just plug that into your laptop temporarily.

And no, unless you could eyes getting red, cause every now and then they do get awfully red. Almost like pink eye, without the itching.

I've been gaming for aprox. 25 years and I can't say that I've ever ran into a problem like this.

Though I did break my toe playing Track and Field on the NES many moons; the only bone I've ever broken in my body.

not an injurie but a side effect i think

I used to get a small ache in my wrists, but I just got a mousepad & keyboard with wrist-rests and a powerball and I've never had any ache since.

Btw... Every wrist brace I've ever used (First was a bowling glove designed to keep your wrist straight) have gotten in the way of using a mouse when worn. The parts of the brace that cover my palm rest on the mouse and makes holding a mouse akward.

So, if it is just wrist pressure you need to comfort, consider an Ace bandage (grippy wrap) with a little padding just on the bottom of your writs, where it would wrest on a keyboard wrist pad. This basically gives you a "wrap on" wrist pad without covering the palm of your hand and getting in the way of the mouse. .02 This might also be helpful for those times you want to take a break from the wrist brace.

I hope this helps. :)

I occasionally lose strength in my mouse hand, I assume its from overuse.

I haven't had any injuries. My mouse pad has had injuries though, when I repeatedly hit it with my mouse after some particularly annoying death while playing CSS.

we need Ben-Gay

I slammed my knee on my desk really hard one time after a jump scare. Almost took out the desk, and had a nasty bruise for a few days. Nothing serious, though. Also bruised my hand by slamming it down on the desk, but that was more of an anger management thing than a purely gaming related issue.

playing some games i've start here grinding my teeth together and that has fucked one of my back teeth (broken the bottom of the tooth on another), tho i think the worst was when i threw my mouse in angry and it bounced and hit me in the head that hurt A LOT.

I had this with my PSP that my thumb started to convulse, not really on the PC though.

I was playing Edna & Harvey last night, and in the tutorial the guy was talking about all the injuries and fatalities that happen when you game, like getting your fingers pinched in the inventory, or stabbing yourself on the sharp arrows when you need to go from one screen to the next. I couldn't help but think of that when I saw your thread, even though it's not what you're talking about at all.

My hand/fingers/wrist/arm are completely screwed, carpal tunnel, tendinitis.. not from gaming in particular, just excessive typing, excessive mouse usage, a bad table/chair + exertion from drawing. ;-;

Lately I've been trying to do some exercises on it to alleviate the pain a little, but I should probably try one of those wrist restraints too.

my eyesight is terrible

Terrible eyesight. I almost had carpal tunnel once, but that was due to repetitive strain from writing in school rather than actual gaming.

I get similar pains in my hands from playing for more than a few hours each day, it sucks because I LOVE gaming... >_<

It's mostly my left hand, as I'm left handed, that hurts the worst from holding the "WASD" position and using the L-Shift and L-Control keys to sprint and crouch respectively in most games.

The pain sucks, but for the most part it's worth it because of my love of gaming!

my back and shoulders are horrible from being hunched over my computer for hours and hours and not moving ._.

i used to have REALLY bad pain in my wrist when i played diablo 2 & 3 for a long time.

It was definetely related to the massive amount of clicks per minute, trying to grab stuff from the floor before anyone else XDDD

Apart from that, ive been playing shooters basically for ridiculous amount of hours a day without experiencing any pain.

My eyes get fucked up after a while tho. They get SO injected on blood... i was thinking to get one of those gaming glasses but i doubt of their eficacy...

Sometimes my back gets sore when I try to sit on my bed :/ used to have bad ring finger/pinky cramps but that improved greatly after I got a gaming mouse with a proper finger rest!