ReviewNutrients2020
Rehabilitation Nutrition for Injury Recovery of Athletes: The Role of Macronutrient Intake.
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- Nutritional Strategies in the Rehabilitation of Musculoskeletal Injuries in Athletes: A Systematic Integrative Review.Nutrients · 2023Pooled it
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- Unraveling the transcriptomic effects of leucine supplementation on muscle growth and performance in basketball athletes.PloS one · 2025Trial
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- Integrative Nutritional Strategies for Performance, Recovery, and Weight Management in Taekwondo.Nutrients · 2026Review
- Association of dietary patterns with the prevalence of rheumatic diseases among older Chinese adults: a national cross-sectional survey.Clinical rheumatology · 2026Article
- From Macronutrients to Functional Foods: Nutritional Strategies for Recovery Following High-Intensity Exercise.Food science & nutrition · 2026Review
- The causal effects of immune factors on sarcopenia-related phenotypes.European journal of applied physiology · 2026Article
- Rehabilitation Nutrition for Tendon and Ligament Injuries: From Collagen Remodeling to Return-to-Activity and Sport.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- The Role of Nutrition in Exercise and Sports.Nutrients · 2026Article
- The case for space as a model of accelerated aging.Nature aging · 2026Review
- The correlation between different lifestyles and body composition focuses on eating habits, nutritional status, and physical exercise components.Hormones (Athens, Greece) · 2025Review
- Analysis of Differences in Injuries in Padel Players According to Sport-Specific Factors, Level of Physical Activity, Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet, and Psychological Status.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Problems in Diagnosis and Treatment of Soleus Muscle Injuries-Narrative Review and Case Report.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
- Cluster analysis of sarcopenia in older adults: significant factors contributing to disease severity.European geriatric medicine · 2025Article
- Dietary simple sugar intake, metabolic indicators, markers of inflammation, and injury among semi-professional football players.Food & nutrition research · 2025Article
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- Trends in Nutrition-Related Risk Factors Identified Post-Operatively in Patients Treated for a Lower-Extremity Injury.Nutrients · 2024Article
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Abstract
An adequate and balanced diet is of utmost importance in recovery and rehabilitation. "Rehabilitation nutrition" for injury recovery of athletes is similar to sports nutrition, except for the differences that concern the prevention of the risk or presence of sarcopenia, malnutrition, or dysphagia. Rehabilitation nutrition also aims, combined with training, to an adequate long-term nutritional status of the athlete and also in physical condition improvement, in terms of endurance and resistance. The aim of this paper is to define the proper nutrition for athletes in order to hasten their return to the sports after surgery or injury. Energy intake should be higher than the energy target in order to fight sarcopenia-that is 25-30 kcal/kg of body weight. Macro- and micro-nutrients play an important role in metabolism, energy production, hemoglobin synthesis, lean mass and bone mass maintenance, immunity, health, and protection against oxidative damage. Nutritional strategies, such as supplementation of suboptimal protein intake with leucine are feasible and effective in offsetting anabolic resistance. Thus, maintaining muscle mass, without gaining fat, becomes challenging for the injured athlete. A dietary strategy should be tailored to the athlete's needs, considering amounts, frequency, type and, most of all, protein quality. During rehabilitation, simultaneous carbohydrates and protein intake can inhibit muscle breakdown and muscle atrophy. The long-term intake of omega-3 fatty acids enhances anabolic sensitivity to amino acids; thus, it may be beneficial to the injured athlete. Adequate intakes of macronutrients can play a major role supporting athletes' anabolism.
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