Recovery
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.
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Recovery research asks what happens after demands: to experience, regulation or performance. Work and sport research use different observation windows and outcomes.[1][2]
Rest creates an opportunity
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]
Three questions to take into a study
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.
Rest describes an activity or arrangement. Whether recovery has occurred requires examining the relevant changes in function.
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Core reading
- Recovery from job stress: The stressor-detachment model as an integrative framework ↗
Sabine Sonnentag · Charlotte Fritz
Study record & citations
Journal of Organizational Behavior · 2015 - Recovery and Performance in Sport: Consensus Statement ↗
Michael Kellmann · Maurizio Bertollo · Laurent Bosquet · Michel Brink · Aaron J. Coutts · et al.
Study record & citations
International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance · 2018 - The cumulative cost of additional wakefulness: dose-response effects on neurobehavioral functions and sleep physiology from chronic sleep restriction and total sleep deprivation ↗
Hans P. A. Van Dongen · Greg Maislin · Janet M. Mullington · David F. Dinges
Study record & citations
Sleep · 2003
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