{"id":11077,"date":"2022-03-02T11:33:06","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T03:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paulstokes.com.au\/?p=11077"},"modified":"2022-06-03T12:54:12","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T04:54:12","slug":"nutrition-during-injury-recovery-managing-your-food-intake-for-healing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulstokes.com.au\/nutrition-during-injury-recovery-managing-your-food-intake-for-healing\/","title":{"rendered":"Nutrition During Injury Recovery – Managing your food intake for healing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Your easy-to-follow guide for how to adjust your diet when dealing with an injury. We’ll look at nutrition hacks to help your recovery from injury.<\/p>\n

Whether they are mild or severe, injuries can impact our day-to-day activities. When our activity levels change, so to do our bodies\u2019 nutritional requirements. Find out what and how we should be eating to assist our bodies to bounce back to full fitness in this comprehensive guide.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, for healthy active people, injuries are somewhat inevitable in our pursuit of fitter stronger bodies.<\/p>\n

It makes sense that if we get injured, we should make an appointment with our GP or physio. But it\u2019s also important to consider what impact our dietary choices can have on our injury and what we can do to fast track our road to recovery.<\/p>\n

The role of good nutrition when it comes to injury recovery<\/h2>\n

While a healthy diet can\u2019t keep you guaranteed to remain injury-free, getting essential nutrients is vital to supporting recovery and, in many cases, can speed the process up.<\/p>\n

In almost all cases, poor nutrition will hamper your body\u2019s ability to repair itself and you\u2019ll be out of action longer than perhaps necessary.<\/p>\n

Injuries can take many forms and can range from acute to chronic, due to overuse for example. They may affect soft tissue \u2013 our muscles, tendons and ligaments, or our bones or our nerves.<\/p>\n

Now you may think if you\u2019re injured you just need to cut back on calories. After all, you\u2019re not going to be moving about as much or performing the same workout sessions or sports activities. So, your body doesn\u2019t need as much food, right?<\/p>\n

Well, it\u2019s not that simple.<\/p>\n

Repairing and rebuilding a body part takes time and energy. How much energy depends on the individual nature of the specific injury and other factors surrounding your activity levels and daily needs.<\/p>\n

READ ALSO: Understanding Portions | Managing your food intake to match activity level<\/a><\/p>\n

Essentially, we have 3 main goals for our nutrition during times of injury:<\/h2>\n