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

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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.

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