Is it time to hang up your spikes?

As the Baby-boomer generation hurtles through middle age, it is stumbling, falling, and getting carted off to hospitals in numbers so huge that the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons has coined a term - "boomeritis" - for injuries to aging athletes. Earlier generations may have hung...

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Published in:Fortune 2002-01, Vol.145 (1), p.57-60
Main Author: Smith, Timothy K
Format: Magazinearticle
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Aging
Arthritis
Athletic Injuries - physiopathology
Athletic Injuries - therapy
Baby boomers
Basketball
Cumulative Trauma Disorders - physiopathology
Cumulative Trauma Disorders - therapy
Exercise
Female
Health administration
Humans
Joints - physiopathology
Male
Middle Aged
Muscles - physiopathology
Older people
Orthopedics
Osteoarthritis
Physical fitness
Physical therapists
Physical Therapy Modalities
Sports injuries
United States
Weightlifting
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Summary:As the Baby-boomer generation hurtles through middle age, it is stumbling, falling, and getting carted off to hospitals in numbers so huge that the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons has coined a term - "boomeritis" - for injuries to aging athletes. Earlier generations may have hung up their spikes far too soon, medically speaking - often on the advice of doctors who believed that aging inevitably involved a more or less linear, general decline in physical capacity. Baby-boomers would not have accepted such an idea even if it were true, of course, and thankfully it is looking doubtful.
ISSN:0015-8259