Baby Boomers Sports And Gym Injury Risksavoid Over 40s Exercise Injuries
Due to health care education, more people, who are over forty, those born in 1946 to 1964, commonly known as the baby boomers, are realizing the benefits of taking up sports or exercising in a gym.
This is well and good since exercising regularly severely cut the risks of contracting aging and obesity related potentially killer diseases such as diabetes, heart diseases, stroke, some forms of cancers and many other diseases.
It is indeed heartening to know that more baby boomers are taking charge of their health through regularly exercise to improve their cardiovascular health thus becoming fitter and stronger. However, with more middle aged people exercising and playing some form of sports, instances of injuries sustained from these activities have risen substantially.
In the United States, these gym or sports injuries have become the number 2 reason for people visiting the doctors office just behind the common cold, reported by the National Ambulatory Medical Care in 2003.
A Consumer Product Safety Commission research in 1998 found that sports related injuries to baby...