{"id":470769,"date":"2022-03-25T09:29:01","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T09:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/?p=470769"},"modified":"2022-03-25T09:29:01","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T09:29:01","slug":"a-german-gamer-broke-his-neck-while-wearing-a-vr-headset-but-not-because-he-fell-over-while-playing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/?p=470769","title":{"rendered":"A German gamer broke his neck while wearing a VR headset – but not because he fell over while playing"},"content":{"rendered":"

A German gamer broke his neck while wearing a VR headset – but not because he fell over while playing.<\/p>\n

Instead, doctors claim the 31-year-old<\/a> – who played for up to four hours each day – suffered the injury because of his ‘repetitive’ and ‘intense’ movements.<\/p>\n

Medics say repeated strenuous movements wore down one of the vertebrae in his neck, and causing it to finally crack.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Experts at the University of Leipzig Hospital, who treated the man, believe this is the world’s first documented of VR-related stress fracture.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Detailing the case in a medical journal, the team wrote the unidentified man’s injury resembled ones seen in runners and soldiers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The man went to the hospital after experiencing a sharp pain in his shoulders while playing a game.<\/p>\n

Doctors did not reveal what game he was playing, but said it required him to move his body to ‘rhythmic visual and musical triggers’.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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German medics attributed the man’s injuries to the repeated movements he made while playing wearing a virtual reality headset and playing a game that required him to move and react to musical ques (stock image)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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