Lumineckitis

shughes — Fri, 15 Apr 2005 20:35:40 -0700

Last weekend I discovered a new medical condition that I need to warn everyone about. I haven’t quite come up with the perfect term for it yet, but let me describe how I caught the condition.

After hearing that my buddy had somehow achieved triple my high score in Lumines, I sat down for some aggressive playing to catch up. Erik had gotten 250k to beat my 80k, so I didn’t stop playing until I had wrestled 440k points from the game. This took me about 2-2.5 hours to accomplish. Now, that’s 2-2.5 hours of sitting in an armchair, arms locked in the same position, staring at the PSP screen. The only joints that moved were my thumbs. When I tried to get up to celebrate, I realized I had this massive pinch in my upper back and neck. I mean a serious ache, a deblitating amount of pain. And over the next few days, it actually got much worse. I couldn’t comfortably turn my head or stretch my arms out in front of me for most of this week.

Now, a contributing factor may have come from a painful neck twitch that I got while playing hackey sack on the previous day… But there is no doubt that the PSP/Lumines was the primary contributor to my pain.

Should we call it “Lumines Neck” or “PSP Neck”. Someone suggested “Luminitis”, but I think I’ll save that name to describe the condition I have whereby everything I see looks like a Lumines block that I can destroy… Or is that “Luminipsychosis”?

I’d like to know if anyone else is experiencing similar pains. Maybe we can get a class-action lawsuit going? :) I posted about it on IGN and found some comrades in pain.

prattkiddd writes:

Holy Crap!! My girlfriend was playing psp for like 30 minutes and she had an arm and neck cramp after. It was killing her. Wierd!!!! I thought she was joking around.

The only cure I know of so far is to stop playing PSP while the pain persists. I hope they make a pill for it so that I don’t ever have to stop again.

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