health
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The New Aggretsuko Comic Has An Important Message About Flu Season
Listen up, nasties. Like many people working in big cities, Aggretsuko‘s Retsuko gets up every day, squeezes into a subway car full of coughing and sneezing people, and makes her way downtown. In her office, she sits in a cubicle for hours on end while breathing in stale, air-conditioned air. This routine is always terrible,…
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Hey, World Health Organisation: The Scientific Basis For A ‘Gaming Disorder’ Is Weak
13The International Classification of Diseases is due for it’s next update in the middle of this year, and among the proposed revisions is the addition of a new “gaming disorder”. Not everyone agrees with the inclusion – including more than 30 International and Australian researchers who just published a paper pointing out the weak scientific…
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Carpal Tunnel Explained In Five Minutes
Gamers have a tendency to take things to the extreme, their bodies included. So with that in mind, it’s probably a good time to remind you how serious carpal tunnel is, and how easily it can be avoided.
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Physical Therapists Are Helping Esports Pros Play More And Hurt Less
Clacking keys; mashing buttons; running joysticks up and down in precise, intricate patterns. The motions of playing a video game are mechanical — frequent and repetitive — and suggest a machine at work, which is of course not far off, especially with the best players in the world routinely spending 12 hours a day playing…