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Message: [QUOTE="j66kicker, post: 2404066, member: 4447"] Serious/professional athletes are 10X more likely to get osteoarthritis in their knees and hips later in life (40's) than non-athletes, even if those joints were never injured. Worst sports are football, soccer, basketball and gymnastics. Gymnastics is particularly bad for women because of the young ages, abuse of their immature skeletal systems. Running, swimming, cycling, tennis and golf are not so bad (arthritis-wise, anyway). Knee, ankle, shoulder and hip injuries further increase the arthritis risk. Skiing, snowboarding & skateboarding are bad ones, since the risk of injury is very high. As an aside, I also saw a study of 12,000 high school and college basketball players - says women college basketball players are 6X more likely to tear their ACL than MCBB players. [/QUOTE]