German gamer, 31, breaks his NECK because of his 'repetitive' and 'intense' movements using a VR headset

Daily Mail UK ^ | 28 January 2022 | John Ely

[BenLurkin]

Medics say repeated strenuous movements wore down one of the vertebrae in his neck, and causing it to finally crack.

Experts at the University of Leipzig Hospital, who treated the man, believe this is the world's first documented of VR-related stress fracture.

Detailing the case in a medical journal, the team wrote the unidentified man's injury resembled ones seen in runners and soldiers.

The man went to the hospital after experiencing a sharp pain in his shoulders while playing a game.

Doctors did not reveal what game he was playing, but said it required him to move his body to 'rhythmic visual and musical triggers'.

The man told hospital staff he played games for between one-four hours every day, but claimed not to have fallen or collided with anything while playing.

X-ray scans later revealed the man had fractured his C7 neck vertebra, situated near the base of the neck just above the shoulders.

[George from New England]

Question # 733 on the insurance application is just written ...
Can’t be paying for this.

[BenLurkin]

At least it wasn’t VR Silent Hill.

[Sirius Lee]

“If you die in the game, you die in real life.”

[BobL]

... but did he win?

[ArcadeQuarters]

Be safe. Try BMX instead.

[Honest Nigerian]

I am guessing that he got the JimJonesJab and all the boosteez. With the money he got for getting the shots he bought that Oculus thingee.

[SpaceBar]

Of course what this all means is ... more laws.

[Openurmind]

lol, “you are going to break your neck playing that game”.

[ex91B10]

When we were kids, it was "you'll put someone's eye out".

Time changes everything.

[Azeem]

Beat saber will kill you.

[Openurmind]

lol, yep.

[Old Yeller]

You would have though he would have worn his penis out first in virtual world.

[x]

Doctors did not reveal what game he was playing, but said it required him to move his body to 'rhythmic visual and musical triggers'.

How many more must die before Dance Dance Revolution is banned?

[right way right]

He was playing Half Life with a virtual head set on and a headcrab was on his head eating his brain out.
You can’t get them off! Yer done!

[rrrod]

Was he vaxxed?

[al baby]

So what

[al baby]

He is no Dale Sr.

[refermech]

Patient: Doc it hurts when I do this.
Doc: Stop doing that.

[oldvirginian]

“it required him to move his body to ‘rhythmic visual and musical triggers’.”

PORN!
It had to be porn.