Perspective - (2025) Volume 15, Issue 6
Received: 01-Nov-2025, Manuscript No. Jsmds-25-175858;
Editor assigned: 03-Nov-2025, Pre QC No. P-175858;
Reviewed: 17-Nov-2025, QC No. Q-175858;
Revised: 24-Nov-2025, Manuscript No. R-175858;
Published:
01-Dec-2025
, DOI: 10.37421/2161-0673.2025.15.462
Citation: Fujimoto, Kaito. ”Multifaceted Recovery: Adaptive Strategies for Resilience.” J Sports Med Doping Stud 15 (2025):462.
Copyright: © 2025 Fujimoto K. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use,
distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
This review examines how various sleep-wake interventions impact post-exercise recovery, identifying sleep hygiene, naps, and chronotherapy as common strategies. It highlights the overall low quality of current evidence but suggests that optimizing sleep, particularly through personalized approaches, can significantly aid an athlete's physiological and psychological recovery after intense physical activity.[1] This paper explores the role of ecological restoration in mitigating climate change impacts and reducing disaster risks. It emphasizes that restoring ecosystems like forests and wetlands can serve as effective nature-based solutions, enhancing resilience against extreme weather events, improving water regulation, and safeguarding biodiversity, thereby offering multifaceted recovery benefits for natural and human systems.[2] This qualitative study describes the co-design of a self-management toolkit aimed at supporting individuals in their mental health recovery journeys. It identifies key components like coping strategies, goal setting, and relapse prevention, underscoring the importance of user involvement in developing practical, personalized tools that empower individuals to manage their mental health conditions effectively.[3] This study investigates how healthcare organizations developed recovery strategies following the disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. It highlights approaches such as workforce adaptation, supply chain restructuring, and leveraging technology, emphasizing the need for flexible, localized strategies to restore services and build resilience against future health crises.[4] This systematic review explores various self-management strategies employed by individuals for substance use disorders. It identifies approaches such as goal setting, coping skills, and support group participation, demonstrating their potential to empower individuals in their recovery journey and highlighting the importance of personalized, accessible interventions.[5] This systematic review investigates the effectiveness of community-led recovery strategies in areas impacted by disasters. It finds that empowering local communities to lead recovery efforts, through initiatives like participatory planning and resource mobilization, fosters greater resilience, sustainability, and ownership in the post-disaster reconstruction and healing process.[6] This systematic review synthesizes current cybersecurity incident recovery and resilience strategies, highlighting the importance of a multi-faceted approach. It identifies key practices such as robust backup and restoration, incident response planning, and proactive threat intelligence, underscoring that effective recovery hinges on combining technical measures with organizational preparedness to minimize disruption.[7] This systematic review and meta-analysis evaluates the efficacy of Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) pathways for patients undergoing pancreaticoduodenectomy. It demonstrates that ERAS protocols, encompassing optimized pre-operative, intra-operative, and post-operative care, significantly reduce hospital stay and complications, thereby accelerating patient recovery and improving outcomes for complex surgical procedures.[8] This narrative review outlines global strategies and challenges in health system recovery following the COVID-19 pandemic. It discusses approaches like strengthening primary care, addressing care backlogs, and investing in public health infrastructure, emphasizing that recovery necessitates comprehensive, equitable strategies to rebuild resilient and responsive healthcare systems worldwide.[9] This systematic review examines restoration strategies aimed at adapting temperate forests to climate change. It highlights approaches such as species diversification, assisted migration, and active forest management, concluding that proactive and adaptive restoration efforts are critical for enhancing forest resilience, maintaining ecosystem services, and ensuring long-term ecological stability in a changing climate.[10]
Recovery is a multifaceted concept applied across diverse domains, from individual health to complex ecological and societal systems. What this really means is, the strategies employed for recovery are often tailored to specific contexts, yet several underlying principles emerge as critical for success. For instance, optimizing sleep through personalized interventions significantly aids an athlete's physiological and psychological recovery after intense physical activity [1]. Similarly, in mental health, co-designed self-management toolkits emphasize coping strategies, goal setting, and relapse prevention, empowering individuals in their recovery journeys through user involvement and personalized tools [3]. For substance use disorders, self-management strategies like goal setting, coping skills, and support group participation are vital for empowering individuals towards recovery [5].
Health systems and organizations faced significant disruptions, particularly from events like the COVID-19 pandemic, necessitating robust recovery strategies. Healthcare organizations adapted workforces, restructured supply chains, and leveraged technology to restore services and build resilience against future health crises [4]. Globally, health system recovery from the pandemic involves strengthening primary care, addressing care backlogs, and investing in public health infrastructure, highlighting the need for comprehensive and equitable approaches to rebuild resilient systems [9]. In surgical contexts, Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) pathways, with their optimized pre-operative, intra-operative, and post-operative care, significantly reduce hospital stays and complications, accelerating patient recovery and improving outcomes for complex procedures [8].
Beyond human health, recovery extends to environmental and disaster contexts, focusing on resilience and adaptation. Ecological restoration, such as restoring forests and wetlands, acts as a nature-based solution for climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction, enhancing resilience against extreme weather, improving water regulation, and safeguarding biodiversity [2]. In disaster-affected areas, community-led recovery strategies, involving participatory planning and resource mobilization, foster greater resilience, sustainability, and ownership in the post-disaster healing process [6]. For temperate forests, restoration strategies like species diversification, assisted migration, and active forest management are critical for adapting to climate change, enhancing resilience, and maintaining ecosystem services [10].
Cybersecurity also demands a multi-faceted recovery approach. Here's the thing: effective cybersecurity incident recovery and resilience strategies rely on robust backup and restoration, incident response planning, and proactive threat intelligence. This underscores that combining technical measures with organizational preparedness is key to minimizing disruption and ensuring swift recovery [7]. Across all these areas, a common thread is the emphasis on proactive planning, adaptability, and tailored interventions that consider the unique needs and contexts of the systems or individuals involved. The low quality of current evidence in some fields, such as sleep-wake interventions for athletes, points to a need for more rigorous research to solidify best practices.
Ultimately, these diverse studies collectively highlight that recovery is an ongoing, adaptive process. It necessitates a blend of personalized, community-driven, technological, and systemic strategies to address challenges ranging from physical and mental well-being to environmental crises and digital security. The focus is consistently on building resilience, empowering individuals, and fostering sustainable outcomes.
This collection of research underscores the pervasive and multifaceted nature of 'recovery' across various domains, including physical health, mental well-being, ecological systems, disaster response, and digital security. We find that strategies for post-exercise recovery often involve personalized sleep interventions like hygiene, naps, and chronotherapy [1]. Mental health and substance use recovery emphasize self-management toolkits, coping strategies, goal setting, and support groups, highlighting the importance of user involvement and personalized approaches [3, 5]. Systemic recovery is also a major theme. Healthcare organizations and global health systems adapt workforce, restructure supply chains, leverage technology, and strengthen primary care to recover from disruptions like the COVID-19 pandemic, striving for flexible, equitable, and resilient systems [4, 9]. In the realm of surgery, Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) pathways significantly improve patient outcomes by optimizing care protocols [8]. For environmental and disaster resilience, ecological restoration mitigates climate change and disaster risks through nature-based solutions [2]. Community-led efforts enhance post-disaster recovery, fostering local ownership and sustainability [6]. Forest restoration strategies focus on species diversification and active management to adapt to climate change [10]. Lastly, cybersecurity incident recovery relies on robust technical measures and organizational preparedness, including backup, incident response planning, and threat intelligence [7]. The overarching message is clear: successful recovery across these diverse fields demands tailored, adaptive, and often community-centric or systemic approaches to build resilience and improve outcomes.
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