There are medical benefits for video games?

Video Games have always enjoyed a modest sign of tolerance by parents who have difficulty seeing the benefits of learning to crash a car into a tree at 120 miles per hour. But new evidence is proof that video games have a new respect in the medical field. And if you suffer from chronic pain, in May there is a knock at the door of your kids asking: "Can you show me how this controller thingy work?

One of the advantages most beautiful is that now there are games like Dance Dance Revolution that can help you physically fit. If you were in a movie theater or shopping lately, you may have noticed the 3-meter-square platform with an arrow on each side instead of up, down, left and right. The player can appear as if the child is enrolled in a dance with the Wiggles, but the game requires skill. The player faces a video screen that has arrows scrolling up the rhythm of a song, and the player steps on the link arrow. The temptation to try, but not in a public place? The Home version costs about $ 80 for the game and dance mat plastic and includes a training
Mode "that will actually control how many calories you burn. Another recently published study on the ability of games to effectively reduce chronic pain. A group of students from Wheeling Jesuit University reported in their study that make the sports and fighting games produces a dramatic level of pain distraction. The students presented the results of the study, "Effects of Video Game Play Types on Pain Threshold and Tolerance," during the seventh annual University Student Research Symposium and scholarships, the April 4, 2006. The study examined 6 genre types (action, puzzle, arcade, fighting, sports, and boxing.) Sports games and fighting games were able "to produce a dramatic level of pain distraction." Some have suggested that doctors installing more video game consoles in their waiting rooms to reduce the tension of surgical procedures to come. That seems fair, given that many surgeons are now asking for iPod in their operating rooms.

The video game, you can not only help the patient! If you need surgery, you should be happy to know that the doctor actually spent some time playing video games. Surgeons who play video games three hours a week were 27 percent fewer errors and perform the tasks 27 percent faster, "said James Rosser Jr., a top surgeon and director of advanced medical technologies to Beth Israel Medical Center in New York. Rosser and his colleagues have recently convened surgeons, filmmakers and game developers to discuss ways to train doctors better tools can be developed. The players are linked with heart rate and conductivity monitor skin on the fingers and should calm their body and mind to make the game to react.

All good news, but do not be surprised if your guys here the news too soon. When asked for the next PlayStation sports game and say no, you must respond with May, but it is good for my health and I can also be trained to become a surgeon!