The Secret Sauce in Injured Worker Recovery? It’s Nutrition!

Let food be thy medicine, and let medicine be thy food. Said by Hippocrates a very, very long time ago, this nonetheless comes as breaking news in the evolving understanding of patient engagement. Nutrition is the first of the four cards that can be played to address the ‘wildcard’ of patient engagement in the recovery process.

If you spend more than five minutes on social media, you will read or hear about a dozen different eating strategies, diet plans, foods you must eat and foods you must never eat -- all frustrating even the most discerning reader.

Beyond the admonition to not eat ‘junk food,’ there is very little to no support given to educating the injured worked on how nutrition is vital to getting better faster and staying better longer.