Nintendo Wii Helps Surgeons Hone Motor Skills

Wall Street Journal:

Don't worry about that guy about to operate on your gallbladder. He trained on the Wii.

According to a very small, very preliminary study, playing certain video games on the Nintendo Wii helps surgical residents to hone their fine motor skills and improve their performance on a serious surgery simulator.

OK, so a simple video game helps these docs with a slightly more complicated one. But bear with us here because the more sophisticated simulator is the sort of thing that's used right now to help doctors do a better job on keyhole surgery using tiny instruments outfitted with video cameras.

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Comments

[johnnyjust]

So would exercise. So would reading. So would experience.

[Tom95134]

WSJ with old news again. There was a study published over a year ago that showed surgeons that played more than 5 hrs of video games a week had a better rate of success when using "keyhole" surgery.