A letter to the New England Medical Journal from Karen Eley of Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust reports that a 14-year-old girl in the UK fractured her foot when she fell off a Wii Fit Balance Board.
"In the United Kingdom, a healthy 14-year-old girl presented to the emergency department at Horton General Hospital in Banbury (near Oxford), having sustained an injury to her right foot with associated difficulty in mobilization," writes Eley. "She had been playing on her Wii Fit balance board and had fallen off, sustaining an inversion injury. (The Wii Fit replaces handheld controls with a pressure-sensitive board about 2 in. off the ground that lets the user participate in tricky games that can improve balance.)"
I realize she probably carelessly fell off, but we like to think it pushed her off because it makes the article more interesting. This certainly isn't the first case of a Wii-related injury as Eley points out numerous other examples of reported injuries.
[via The Wiire]
