FARMVILLE -- Three Longwood University researchers are trying to determine if Nintendo's Wii video game system can help older adults with arthritis.

The three faculty members in the department of health, recreation and kinesiology are measuring the game's effects on the lower extremity endurance and the range of shoulder motion of nine people who have arthritis.

The subjects meet once a week in an on-campus classroom to play a simulated bowling video game, with the simulated results displayed on a large television screen in front of them.