ReviewNutrients2020
Effects of Nutritional Interventions in the Control of Musculoskeletal Pain: An Integrative Review.
Review in Nutrients, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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23 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 31 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Lower chronic neck-back with higher planetary health diet adherence.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Article
- A Comparative Study of Paralympic Veterans with Either a Spinal Cord Injury or an Amputation: Implications for Personalized Nutritional Advice.Journal of functional morphology and kinesiology · 2025Article
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- Dietary acid load and the odds of knee osteoarthritis: a case-control study.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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- Causal relationships between dietary factors and spinal diseases: a univariable and multivariable Mendelian randomization study.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Article
- Nutritional Strategies for Chronic Craniofacial Pain and Temporomandibular Disorders: Current Clinical and Preclinical Insights.Nutrients · 2024Review
- Diet and risk of low back pain: a Mendelian randomization analysis.European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2024Article
- Causal relationship between diet and knee osteoarthritis: A Mendelian randomization analysis.PloS one · 2024Article
- Role of Nutrition in the Management of Patients with Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain.Journal of pain research · 2024Review
- Association between dietary intake of flavonoids and chronic low back pain: a cross-sectional study.Frontiers in nutrition · 2024Article
- Association between dietary inflammatory index and musculoskeletal disorders in adults.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Major dietary patterns in relation to chronic low back pain; a cross-sectional study from RaNCD cohort.Nutrition journal · 2022Article
- Chronic Pain in Musculoskeletal Diseases: Do You Know Your Enemy?Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Review
- The Association Between Dietary Energy Density and Musculoskeletal Pain in Adult Men and Women.Clinical nutrition research · 2022Article
- Dietary Habits and Musculoskeletal Pain in Statin and Red Yeast Rice Users: A Pilot Study.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2021Article
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4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Food consumption has significant positive effects on an individual's health status, including the reduction of symptoms associated with musculoskeletal pain. However, specific food groups indicated for the treatment of pain are not yet determined. Hence, this review aimed to analyze the effects of nutritional interventions with specific diets, oils and/or fatty acids, and foodstuffs in natura in the reduction of musculoskeletal pain. An integrative review was conducted in the following databases: Embase, PubMed, LILACS, and Google Scholar. Clinical trials written in English, Spanish, and Portuguese and published between 2000 and March 2020 were included in this review. Seventeen studies were included. Among these, a reduction of musculoskeletal pain with different types of nutritional interventions, such as vegan and Mediterranean diets and the consumption of blueberry, strawberry, passion fruit peel extract, argan oil, fish oil (omega-3), olive oil, and undenatured type II collagen and vitamin D gel capsules, was observed in 14 studies. Eight studies evaluated the profiles of several inflammatory markers, and of these, decreased interleukin (IL)-6, IL-1β, and tumor necrosis factor-α levels were observed in two studies. This review suggests that different nutritional interventions with specific diets, oils and/or fatty acids, and foodstuffs in natura reduce musculoskeletal pain, specifically in adults with osteoarthritis. Besides pain improvement, nutritional interventions, including the consumption of strawberry and vitamin D gel capsules, decrease the levels of several inflammatory markers.
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