Also known as...callouses! :carlface:

This has got to be a joke...

http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE51N4GY20090224

Quote :

"Too much PlayStation may cause painful lumps Tue Feb 24, 2009 1:59pm EST LONDON (Reuters) - Gamers beware: Keeping too tight a grip on the console and furiously pushing the buttons can cause a newly identified skin disorder marked by painful lumps on the palms, Swiss scientists said on Tuesday. Called "PlayStation palmar hidradentitis" by the scientists, the skin disorder can cause painful lesions on the palms similar to patches found on the soles of children's feet after taking part in heavy physical activity, they said. "The tight and continuous grasping of the hand-grips together with repeated pushing of the buttons produce minor but continuous trauma to the (palm) surfaces," Vincent Piguet and colleagues at University Hospitals and Medical School of Geneva reported in the British Journal of Dermatology. A spokesman for Sony Corp, which makes the PlayStation, noted the study involved one person and said the company had sold hundreds of millions of the consoles since the product was introduced in 1995. "As with any leisure pursuit there are possible consequences of not following common sense, health advice and guidelines, as can be found within our instruction manuals," Sony spokesman David Wilson said. "We would not wish to belittle this research and we will study the findings with interest, but this is the first time we have ever heard of a complaint of this nature." Excessive gaming is already seen as a public health issue, sparking addictive behavior that can lead to a range of psychological problems, the researchers said. Other researchers have identified acute tendonitis from playing too much of Nintendo Co Ltd's Wii, and now a disorder related to the PlayStation can be added to the list, the team said. Their study described the case of a 12-year-old girl who attended the Geneva hospital with intensely painful lesions on her hands, which she had developed four weeks earlier. She had no other lesions anywhere else on her body. After questioning, the doctors discovered that several days prior to the appearance of the lesions the girl had started to play a game on her PlayStation for several hours each day. The researchers suspected that grasping the console's hand-grips together with repeated pushing of the buttons produced minor but prolonged injury to the palm of the girl's hands, which can be made worse by sweating during a tense game. The doctors recommended the girl stop playing and she recovered fully after 10 days, the researchers said. "If you're worried about soreness on your hands when playing a games console, it might be sensible to give your hands a break from time to time, and don't play excessively if your hands are prone to sweating," Nina Goad of the British Association of Dermatologists said in a statement. (Reporting by Michael Kahn, Editing by Will Dunham)"

2/25/2009 12:53:34 AM

Pacman wrist ftw

2/25/2009 12:54:20 AM

These things sound more like blisters than callouses.

2/25/2009 12:55:42 AM

this reminds me of the first mario party where you almost broke the damn controller and made your palm bleed trying to fly that helicopter guy.

2/25/2009 12:58:12 AM

they should make controllers out of dicks.

i've never gotten callouses from beating it

I'm Big Business and i approved this message.

2/25/2009 12:58:46 AM

^Clearly, you're doing it wrong

[Edited on February 25, 2009 at 12:59 AM. Reason : or are you ]

2/25/2009 12:59:06 AM

Quote :

"Excessive gaming is already seen as a public health issue, sparking addictive behavior that can lead to a range of psychological problems"

Fucking retards. You can get the same kind of "addiction" from basically any activity in existence if you enjoy it enough.

Also, they're just callouses. Who gives a shit. You get them from playing certain instruments, too... Among other things, like a wide variety of professions.

2/25/2009 1:00:03 AM

Whoa, you're getting really defensive.

2/25/2009 1:02:15 AM

He's not mad with us.....he's mad with society

2/25/2009 1:03:02 AM

Defensive? For the record, my "cursing" doesn't indicate anger, it indicates a desire to speak freely. They're just words, they should never imply emotion without a voice being put behind them. That's a tiny, limited little world I'd never want to live in.

To loosely quote some Irish comedian I saw once: "The rules of the english language are like a brick wall, and "Fuck" is my chisel."

...but that's just some tangent.
As for the post itself, I was mostly referencing whoever seriously thought callouses from gaming/using one's fingers are a genuine health issue. They're fucking retards. Get them a personal nurse and a mental evaluation.

2/25/2009 1:07:45 AM

^a little too academic, but I'll agree with the general direction

2/25/2009 1:09:19 AM

yo holmes to bel air

2/25/2009 1:10:02 AM

^That's a good direction.

2/25/2009 1:10:25 AM

indeed

2/25/2009 1:11:10 AM

Defensive about being defensive.

AHAHA

2/25/2009 1:17:43 AM

^That is an old direction, but a good one nonetheless

2/25/2009 1:18:51 AM

Meh, people who think cursing = anger is one of my obscure pet peeves. I consider it less defense of myself and more an attempt at the overall betterment of society, one step at a time.

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2/25/2009 1:19:57 AM