Can you discuss any notable differences in rehabbing injuries in younger versus older athletes?

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Nick Hadinger · Answer

Can you discuss any notable differences in rehabbing injuries in younger versus older patients? So this is kind of a good question because sometimes there's this misconception that older athletes are harder to rehab because they don't move very well or, you know, they're really stiff, which can be the case. But really the biggest difference that we see is just healing prognosis is going to be quite different. If I'm working with a 13-year-old that has shoulder pain and a 65-year-old that has shoulder pain for the exact same injury, the healing timeline for that is going to be significantly different simply because of degenerative changes that happen over time. And there's going to be less of a capacity to put on muscle and strength as we get older, and there's less capillary density to stimulate healing. And so all of those things kind of prolong rehab processes when we start dealing with older athletes. So setting that expectation with them up front is always really important.

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"Can you discuss any notable differences in rehabbing injuries in younger versus older athletes?"