The Social Security retirement age: Who’s really living longer?

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9. No. It does not fully show up in worker's comp statistics.

That's because a lot of the problems do not become unbearable until a person is in their late 60s or 70s and starts to fall.

Why do you think so many women have hip and back problems? Bearing and carrying babies and children are also a problem for women who do not move heavy machinery or other objects.

Clearly, truck drivers and farmers have more physical damage earlier, but if you have done desk work for 35-40 years, even if you have exercised, you have probably used your muscles in a way that has caused some of them to deteriorate and others to become way too strong. In addition to simply demanding too much of our muscles and bones, it's flexing the same muscle over and over in one direction and not stretching it in the other that causes so many injuries. Movement has to flow and be balanced by countermovement. Debilitating strain can result from small movements as well as from large ones.