SportsInjuryandArthritis

major theme in William Blake's poetry is the transformation of youth's innocence and simplicity into disfigurement, pain, and bitterness in old age. The "dews of the night" that arise in today's society are largely chronic diseases such as arthritis. In this commentary, we explore the connection between acute sports injury, which occurs during the playful period of early life, and arthritis, a widely prevalent later-life chronic condition with high impact on quality of life. RelationshipBetweenSportsInjuryand Arthritis It is helpful to begin by comparing the basic descriptive epidemiology of these two apparently divergent conditions. Nationally, the incidence of sports injury rises dramatically through the middle and high school years and then subsides