Nutrition for Athletes with Spinal Cord Injury
By: Jayden Chapman, MS, RD, LD, METS I, USAT Triathlon Coach As seen on Performance RD. The basic principles of sports nutrition are certainly relevant to athletes with spinal cord injury, but the application of these principles can be different due to some of the physiological changes that happen following an injury. Spinal cord injury (SCI) leads to changes in…