Over the years, the gym culture has become synonymous with urban life. Many young adult intensity and high speed emphasize strength training, weight training and focus on high-exclusion workouts.

While regular exercise is important to maintain healthy bones and joints, pushing the body beyond its limits can be a backfire.

Overloading of joints and bones, especially in their 20 and 30s, can bear the people, which we call “bone burnout”.

While there is not an official medical diagnosis, bone burnouts refer to rapid wear and tears of bones and joints, causing problems such as weak pain, stiffness and even early-early arthritis.

Why young adults are at risk of bone burning?

Young adults often put more stress on their bones and joints than older adults, sometimes without feeling long-term results. Many people spend excessive hours on weight training without proper warm-ups, perform poor posture during exercise, or ignore early signs of cartilage damage such as knee or back pain.

This overexertion can speed up the breakdown of cartilage, which is seen in the elite athletes, and mensius tears or premature arthritis such as osteoarthritis, even people can be young as their 20 and 30s.

Innovation in treatment

For severe cases, lifestyle changes, physiotherapy and preventive care management are the first lines of management. However, new innovations are rebuilding treatment for serious joint problems.

Robotic-assisted surgery for knee replacement is a advancement that offers more accuracy, small incisions and rapid recovery time than traditional surgery.

For young patients with limited joint damage, partial knee replacement or joint resurrection can relieve pain and restore dynamics by more preserving natural joints.

These approaches can delay the need for total knee replacement for many years.

Prevention is better than cure

The good news is that the bone burnout is eligible to be stopped. Major stages include:

• After a balanced exercise routine that combines strength, flexibility and adequate comfort.
• Wearing suitable shoes to reduce stress.
• Ensuring proper calcium and vitamin D intake.
• Listen to your body warning signals instead of pushing through persistent pain.

If the pain continues, it is important to consult an orthopedic specialist for a proper diagnosis, instead of masting symptoms with painkillers.

Since fitness becomes an important part of the lifestyle of young people, awareness about bone and joint health is important. Overting can cause irreversible damage without guidance.

The positive side is that with preventive care, advanced surgical techniques and innovative remedies, young patients do not need to lose their active lifestyle, mobility, or quality of life – even if intervention is necessary.

(Written by Dr. Rakesh Rajput. He is HOD and Director, Orthopedics at Calcutta Medical Research Institute, Kolkata.)