Games Take Away the Pain · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by Zonk on Friday January 27, 2006 @08:59AM 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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Re:That just raises another question... by gknoy · 2006-01-27 12:04 · Score: 2, Informative

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

I would say that regular exercise, perhaps even yoga, will be a good way to help prevent/diminish your pain. I know that as soon as I stopped working out regularly, my back started hurting.