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    "key": "recovery",
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    "path": "/topics/recovery/",
    "title": "Recovery",
    "description": "Recovery concerns how function and regulation change over time after a disturbance. Sleep, exercise and psychological research use different definitions and measures of recovery.",
    "rights": "© The Allostasis Project. All rights reserved. Reproduction or adaptation requires separate permission, subject to applicable legal exceptions.",
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    "sections": [
      {
        "id": "introduction",
        "title": "At a glance",
        "paragraphs": [
          "Regaining capacity after a disturbance.",
          "Recovery concerns how function and regulation change over time after a disturbance. Sleep, exercise and psychological research use different definitions and measures of recovery.",
          "Rest describes an activity or arrangement. Whether recovery has occurred requires examining the relevant changes in function."
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "change",
        "title": "Observe what changes",
        "paragraphs": [
          "Recovery research asks what happens after demands: to experience, regulation or performance. Work and sport research use different observation windows and outcomes.[1][2]"
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "rest",
        "title": "Rest creates an opportunity",
        "paragraphs": [
          "Pausing an activity describes an arrangement. Judging recovery requires specifying what is observed. Sleep-restriction experiments illustrate why subjective feelings and performance need not tell the same story.[3]"
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "reading-research",
        "title": "Three questions to take into a study",
        "paragraphs": [
          "Recovering from what? Which function or experience is being observed? Over what time? These questions help compare studies without assuming that all recovery is one quantity."
        ]
      }
    ],
    "references": [
      {
        "id": "sonnentag-2015",
        "title": "Recovery from job stress: The stressor-detachment model as an integrative framework",
        "authors": "Sabine Sonnentag · Charlotte Fritz",
        "journal": "Journal of Organizational Behavior",
        "year": "2015",
        "url": "https://doi.org/10.1002/job.1924",
        "doi": "10.1002/job.1924"
      },
      {
        "id": "kellmann-2018",
        "title": "Recovery and Performance in Sport: Consensus Statement",
        "authors": "Michael Kellmann · Maurizio Bertollo · Laurent Bosquet · Michel Brink · Aaron J. Coutts · Rob Duffield · Daniel Erlacher · Shona L. Halson · Anne Hecksteden · Jahan Heidari · K. Wolfgang Kallus · Romain Meeusen · Iñigo Mujika · Claudio Robazza · Sabrina Skorski · Ranel Venter · Jürgen Beckmann",
        "journal": "International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance",
        "year": "2018",
        "url": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29345524/",
        "doi": "10.1123/ijspp.2017-0759",
        "pmid": "29345524"
      },
      {
        "id": "van-dongen-2003",
        "title": "The cumulative cost of additional wakefulness: dose-response effects on neurobehavioral functions and sleep physiology from chronic sleep restriction and total sleep deprivation",
        "authors": "Hans P. A. Van Dongen · Greg Maislin · Janet M. Mullington · David F. Dinges",
        "journal": "Sleep",
        "year": "2003",
        "url": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12683469/",
        "doi": "10.1093/sleep/26.2.117",
        "pmid": "12683469"
      }
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