It's so common now, there's a name for it. Trainers at Cincinnati Sports Medicine and Orthopedic Center in Montgomery say they see so many injuries due to the Nintendo Wii, they now call it Wii Syndrome.

Al Ducker, Cincinnati Sports Medicine & Orthopedics: "The type of things that we see are the overuse type of things in the shoulder and the elbows, and when people get real competitive, that's when you see the acute injury, so they hurt their knees, or they hurt their backs."

And it's easy to see how. when you watch Wii in play, you see repetitive motions in the wrists and arms, and quick twists and turns of the back, knees and feet.

Some patients at Cincinnati Sports Medicine have been injured so badly, they needed knee and wrist surgery.

Trainer Al Ducker has three steps to injury free Wii:

Step one, stretch before starting!

"Proper warm up ahead of time, I know that sounds funny for Wii, but these simple type of benefits will help prevent the problem."

Step two, use proper form at play.

And finally, step three, simply stop! A break every hour or a few days off when something hurts can help your body get a Wii bit better.

If you can't even compete in Wii events without injuring yourself you could quite possibly be the most pathetic so called athletic couch potato ever born.