NewJersey.com - July 18, 2010
Recovered and ready to compete

Kevin McCaffrey watched his kids run ahead of him on a family vacation in Washington, D.C. His days of running marathons, triathlons and iron man competitions were already five years behind him that day. McCaffrey, 53, of Allendale, could not even walk a few blocks.

"I felt like an 80-year-old man," the lawyer said, adding that he knew he needed surgery at that moment.

McCaffrey entered a triathlon just eight months after his second hip replacement surgery. He said he had never expected to compete again, but just wanted to run and bike with his sons, ages 9 and 12.

NewJersey.com - January 18, 2010
Baby Boomers will create a joint replacement boom

Dr. Mark A. Hartzband, a prominent Bergen County orthopedic surgeon, is a baby boomer who has many members of his own generation as patients.

“My average age is somewhere between 56 and 58, whereas when I went into practice 26 years ago, my average age was 78,” says Hartzband, 57, who estimates that 50 to 60 percent of those on whom he does knee and hip replacements — his specialty — are boomers.

“I’m a very minimally invasive guy, and those are the people who are most attracted to minimally invasive surgeons, ’cause … they want to minimize how much time they’re out of work.”

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