Episode 197: What Your Doctor Isn’t Telling You About Your Gymnast’s Injury and Nutrition

About this episode

Christina discusses the overlooked connection between nutrition and common injuries in gymnasts.

Has your gymnast been told their injury is “just overuse,” “just part of gymnastics,” or something they’ll grow out of? Have you asked the doctor if nutrition could help — only to be told to “eat healthy,” take vitamin D, or maybe add a multivitamin? For many injured gymnasts, that advice is not enough. In this episode, Christina breaks down the connection between nutrition, under-fueling, growth, development, and common gymnastics injuries like stress fractures, stress reactions, OCD, gymnas...

People in this episode

Host: Christina Anderson

Topics covered

• gymnast injuries
• nutrition
• under-fueling
• growth and development
• stress fractures

Keywords

• gymnast injury
• nutrition
• overuse
• stress fractures
• vitamins

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: gymnastics, vitamin D, multivitamin

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