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WINSTON-SALEM, May 6, 2007 The country’s 78 million baby boomers born between 1946 and 1964 now have an affliction of their own. It’s called “Boomeritis.” It describes the aches and pains of an aging demographic.
The Boomeritis phenomenon stretches far beyond the physical pain of a mass of people. It’s about future strain on health care, and huge financial gain for select industries. It’s about promising new discoveries, changing fitness attitudes, and more. The oldest of the nation’s boomers just passed 60, and, in the next 18 years, the remaining masses will cross that threshold. Medical advancements and other factors have blessed boomers with more health and youthfulness than their previous cohorts. Many have more disposable income and leisure time.
Against that backdrop, boomers are running, playing tennis and pursuing other pet pastimes - all on musculo-skeletal systems that aren’t what they used to be.
And they’re hurting, hobbling to orthopedists’ offices with pain and strain in knees, hips and shoulders. Mostly, the culprit is osteoarthritis, or the gradual wearing down of joints.
Dr. Allston Stubbs, a Winston-Salem orthopedic surgeon, said that his boomer-age patients have high expectations of remaining active and healthy. “They want a simple and as minimally invasive a solution as possible that will return them to the activities they enjoy,” Stubbs said.
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NCSMI Featured in Boomeritis Story
Diagnosis: Boomeritis: An aging generation finds that being active may hurt (excerpt) |
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The North Carolina Sports Medicine Institute is an orthopaedic sports medicine clinic based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Its philosophy is to provide premium orthopaedic treatment “For the Athlete in All of Us”. Allston J. Stubbs, M.D., an attending surgeon at the clinic, has the highest level of orthopaedic sports medicine training and is the only orthopaedic surgeon in North Carolina with a formal fellowship in hip arthroscopy. |
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