If you exercise regularly, you probably know that your body does not bounce back like it once did. How’s this for a sign of aging: Last week we my husband found out he needs a hip replacement . Something that was always associated with old age is now upon us, and it’s not as uncommon among baby boomers as I once thought. Read more… A recent article on Reuters reports that orthopedic surgeons are seeing a huge number of patients between 45 and 64 coming in with complaints of exercise-related injuries, or ” boomeritis ,” a term coined, in 1999, by Dr. Nicholas A DiNubile , an orthopedic surgeon at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Was this impending hip replacement inevitable? It’s hard to know. My husband was a huge runner and went for a jog on most days.

Original Source Aging + Sports = Boomeritis