Orthopedic implants — once the dreaded inevitability of our final, fragile years — are now part of the lives of the nation's active baby boomers and their adult children.
Sure, we're living longer and parts wear out. And collectively, we're carrying around more pounds these days — an increased pounds-per-square-inch grinding down on knees and hips.
But then there's this, too: Few of us — to borrow from poet Dylan Thomas — will go gently into retirement.
Instead, we're zig-zagging across tennis courts and knocking out laps at the local pool ...
Twisting and wrenching on hockey rinks and chasing...
The Orthopedics Industry 
