40 is the age for wild & crazy guys

Brief by Allen Best

Recreation - January 2006 - Colorado Central Magazine - No. 143 - Page 4
Copyright © 2006 by Allen Best and Central Colorado Publishing Co. All rights reserved.
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Who do you think has the highest risk for getting injured when skiing and snowboarding? Would you say old people, which a newspaper in Vail once called skeezers. Or how about testosterone-driven young guys?

Neither, reports a physical therapist at Lake Tahoe, who cites a recent study that shows 40-year-old males are most at risk. They have the desire to take risks, but their joints won't hold up.


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