Our expert consultants specialise in nutrition support for injuries and exercise rehabilitation, including bone, ligament, tendon, and muscle.
Musculoskeletal injuries can set us back months, and poor strategies can prolong the rehabilitation and healing timeline.
How can we support muscle, tendon/ligament, or bone Injury healing, or more importantly, minimise adverse outcomes?
Here are some sports nutrition and rehabilitation nutrition considerations below:
Typical goals during injury healing usually consist of the following:
Support for optimal healing of a specific tissue.
Minimise muscle and lean tissue loss and tissue breakdown of the injured limb.
Maintain lean mass and minimise muscle loss (minimise lean tissue wasting).
Maintain body fat within ideal ranges for health, recovery (and performance aligned to goals).
Minimise detraining.
Support healing and enhance return to daily living/return to sport timeline.
Energy demands during injury rehabilitation
Overall calories should be matched for correct energy needs and adequate energy availability to support healing without excessive increases in body fat or losing important lean mass, suppressing physiological functions and negatively impacting other potential goals from your support team (e.g. building/strengthening in other non-injured areas etc.).
Deceiving energy needs during injury healing and rehabilitation.
Reductions in exercise/training may cause lower energy demands; however – the healing process increases metabolic demands, and walking aids such as crutches, or a boot will further increase that number. Additional goals, such as increasing mass may also increase recommendations.
Primary Nutrients during Injury Rehabilitation
Avoiding deficiencies of micronutrients to allow for healthy functioning/tissue repair of the body.
Adjust fuelling to support varying daily demands through the injury continuum – different phases of healing, differing daily demands during rehab and adjustments during critical milestones of return to performance will cause more complexity in the correct fuels.
Adequate protein targets (increases are likely needed depending on start point) to aid tissue retention and combat the anabolic resistance of limb immobilisation.
Supplements to support injury healing
Evidence-driven lab-tested supplements to support injury-specific healing and additional goals.
Nutrition relevant monitoring
It is highly dependent on each case, weight, skinfolds, and girth to view a progress timeline. Bioimpedance spectroscopy to monitor trends in overall lean mass and fat mass.
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