Top Ten Tips for avoiding boomeritis
Boomeritis is a term I learned several years ago while reading an article about the baby boomers. Since our generation, the practice led craziness, there should be no surprise, was the volumes got arthritis, tendinitis, bursitis, and many other “ITIS” type conditions.
After the actual http://fitness.healthytip.net/ definition is as follows:
Boomeritis: injuries among older recreational athletes, especially those who were born some of the baby boom, when there was a significant increase in the birthrate after the end of World War II in 1945. As the baby-boom generation began, 40 and 50 again, there was an explosion of bone and joint pain, pain, injury and disease – boomeritis. The concept was developed by Dr. Nicholas A DiNubile, an orthopedic surgeon at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, coined in 1999.
I got a kick out of this the first time I read it. I chuckled and thought to myself, it needs to come to our generation to another new word. At this point I could not relate. Some years later, I have a different perspective.
Next, I read an article, the fun of vintages, which met at the weekend warriors. They do nothing physical all week, then things gets in full swing at the weekend with too many miles, or bike riding for long hours leaving them stiff and sore on Monday.
Again I laughed. But then it dawned on me. These articles have been talking about me. Can it be? I remembered how I tore my ACL playing tennis with my son on a weekend. He was 18 at the time and I was also a boom. I was a bit hit in tennis this summer, went five days a week, but take no form for my club and I want to go all out game was a child again.
The first half hour felt great. I wanted strong, and feel as if I could keep up with him, almost. Then I turned to run and hit a backhand, and down I went. I knew what I was because I had torn the ACL other years back, made during the football games with the children. If the old gal ever learn? It seems that I am in good company. According to an article written by Bill Pennington and the New York Times, Sports Injuries published baby boomers grew by 33 percent between 1991 and 1998.
Since there are many other vintages before boomeritis, I thought I’d share a few tips that you could not keep the nearest emergency room patients.
Top Ten Tips for avoiding boomeritis
- Make sure you are getting enough calcium.
- Consider vitamin D, calcium can be absorbed by the bones.
- Include cardiovascular activities, exercises to stay flexible, and not a little strength training.
- Stretching before and after any physical activity.
- Consider activities such as yoga, hiking, swimming and cycling, which are easier on your body.
- Do something physical every day, even if it is just a short walk at lunchtime.
- Do not start a physical activity of youth, without the time to train a slow pace.
- Wear the right shoes for your sport.
- Be interrupted as soon as your body tells you to do so.
Consult a sports medicine specialist as soon as you feel any pain or discomfort.
