Aging

We have all become hypersensitized to the effects of the things around us, the activities we do, and the food we put into our bodies. If each activity has a negative and positive effect, can we score them? Here is my effort to create the “Stone Aging Impact Score” with each activity having a negative or positive effect on a scale of minus 10 to plus 10.

Drop dead in your 100s, playing some sport. This is our goal for our patients. If they can stay fit, recover from illness and injury, and keep their eye on the ball; dropping dead in action at 100+ is a great goal. Here is how to get there and how not to:

The care and feeding of the aging ski knee is all about empowering people to enjoy the freedom of movement. It starts with desire and ends in ski heaven.

Legendary swimmer, Diana Nyad, was told multiple times to abandon any thought of swimming 103 miles nonstop from Cuba to Florida. Her shoulders, she was warned, simply would not hold up. They were wrong.

Of all my patients, regardless of age, those who are happiest seem to share one activity secret. They each add a new sport or activity every six months