Nutritional Intervention and Clinical Management for Musculoskeletal Diseases
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Clinical Nutrition".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 October 2025 | Viewed by 42
Special Issue Editors
Interests: musculoskeletal biology; extracellular matrix; clinical biochemistry; diabetes; microRNAs
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Musculoskeletal (MSK) diseases encompass a wide range of conditions that affect the bones, joints, muscles, and connective tissues, including osteoporosis, osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, and sarcopenia. These conditions are leading causes of disability and reduced quality of life worldwide, particularly among aging populations with great impacts on health and social care. While genetic, environmental, and lifestyle factors contribute to the development and progression of MSK diseases, nutrition also plays a critical role, offering a proactive approach in prevention and management. Nutritional interventions aim to provide the essential nutrients required for maintaining MSK health, reducing inflammation, and supporting tissue repair and regeneration. In addition, personalized guidance from healthcare professionals is essential to optimize nutritional strategies and achieve the best possible outcomes.
This Special Issue aims to focus on new insights, novel dietary approaches, current challenges, and future perspectives in the field of nutritional interventions for musculoskeletal diseases and provide a comprehensive update.
We invite basic, clinical, and translational researchers in relevant fields to submit original research articles, literature/narrative reviews, systematic reviews, and hypothesis-driven papers addressing important issues such as, but not limited to, the following:
- New advances in understanding how nutrients control molecular and cellular homeostasis.
- How nutritional interventions and nutrients affect the MSK (patho)physiology in animal and in vitro models.
- Clinical nutritional management of MSK disorders.
Dr. Ioannis Kanakis
Dr. Ioanna Myrtziou
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- osteoporosis
- osteoarthritis
- sarcopenia
- nutrients
- clinical management
- dietary interventions
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