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Games Take Away the Pain

Posted by Zonk on from the soothing-mario-music-also-helps-sleep-dep dept.

Gamasutra reports on a Wheeling Jesuit University study that indicates gameplaying can allow those with great pain to live more fulfilling lives. From the article: "The Wheeling study compared several different genres of games in their effects on pain. Six types of games were used: action, puzzle, arcade, fighting, sports, and boxing, all varieties that encourage high attention and stimulus. (Games such as RPGs and graphical adventures were likely left out of the survey for their low-impact nature.) The game types most effective in distracting from pain, meted out by cold pressor tests after 10 minutes of each subject playing a particular game type, were the sports and fighting games."

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  1. Motrin vs Xbox360 by Rob_Ogilvie · · Score: 3, Funny

    While the xbox360 may be more fun... it's also a *lot* more expensive than a couple Motrin.

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    Rob
  2. That just raises another question... by jtorkbob · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...who will take away the back pain I get from spending all day in front of my computer playing fighting and sports games?

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    AC: Only on slashdot... could the sentence "My hovercraft is full of eels." be moderated "+4, Insightful
  3. Re:is boxing a type? by ClamIAm · · Score: 2, Funny
    How is boxing a type of game? Wouldn't it fall under fighting and/or sports?

    They couldn't decide which to put it in, so they made another category.

    Unless they're referring to those killer box-making games, where you learn the intricate processes of cardboard creation.

  4. Re:is boxing a type? by Seraph · · Score: 2, Funny

    Maybe they were thinking about Stacker.