"Boomeritis" hits aging athletes-- advice for prevention

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_86412.html
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Fifty may be the new thirty, but baby boomers' bodies haven't heard the news.
Orthopedic surgeons are seeing a "tidal wave" of 45- to 64-year-olds suffering from exercise-related injuries they've dubbed "boomeritis," Dr. Ray Monto, a spokesman for the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons (AAOS), told Reuters Health.
Exercise- and exercise equipment-related injuries sent more than 166,000 people in this age group to the emergency room, clinic or doctor's office in 2008, according to the US Consumer Products Safety Commission.
These injuries are largely due to people not giving themselves enough time to rest up after tough workouts, according to Monto, an orthopedic surgeon practicing in Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. "You can't beat yourself up the way you did when you were 20 because it takes longer to recover," he said.
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There's such a thing as getting old. That's when you buy an SUV and 4x4 your way to where you used to hike.

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There's such a thing as getting old. That's when you buy an SUV and 4x4 your way to where you used to hike.

How much is 48 in donkey years?

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Vince
There's such a thing as getting old. That's when you buy an SUV and 4x4 your way to where you used to hike.

People with alzheimers should not drive!

I don't speak Orange County anymore. It used to be a nice, enviable place. Now it's just a wasteland of overabundance.

The "Fifty may be the new thirty" crowd should switch to "living like 50 until you're 80 and beyond" -- Younger Next Year, by Chris Crowley.

When I was way younger and covering high school sports for the local paper, we had this really spunky gal coaching one of the high school teams, and the players hated her because she was a spunky old-timer and the kids were dumb inner-city teenage girls (not that inner-city has anything to do with dumb teenagers). I'll never forget what she said (at the time in the mid 80s) "I'm 47 years old and proud of it! I made it this far!" And since now I'm 48...I'm proud of it and I'm going to take a lot more!

Vince