Baby Boomers - the Ache & Pain Syndrome - Boomeritis

With advances in health awareness, baby boomers, defined as individuals generally born between 1946 and 1964, are the first generation to actively participate in organized and regularly scheduled fitness programs. As a result, many orthopedic and sports medicine specialists, who once thought of their profession as serving the more athletic community, are finding the majority of their patients are baby boomers with complaints of aches and pains associated with overuse of muscles. Never before has the medical community experienced such an overwhelming number of patients with general body pain. Understanding the implication of fitness on the aging population, including baby boomers, healthcare professionals are beginning to not only serve the baby boomer generation’s physical ailments but also developing a program to serve the emotional implications of aging for this same generation. This combination approach to care is becoming more widely practiced in response to what is known as a new medical term, “boomeritis”.