Keeping the older athlete on track
Older active adults and athletes may present with ailments that behave differently
24th April 2012
We all know the life expectancy of our population is increasing at a relatively rapid rate due to improvements in disease prevention and treatments.
Certainly, in Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula where I work, an impressive number of adults maintain high levels of activity and even engage in competitive sport well into their 80s.
As such, yet another subgroup of patients has developed — active older adults who present with a variety of sporting or activity-related ailments that, sometimes, can behave very differently to the same pathologies in a younger person.