Scalpel, Toxin, and Performance Pressure: Metabolic, Psychiatric, and Psychosocial Aspects of Aesthetic Medicine in Competitive and Physique Athletes
July 2026
in “
Quality in Sport
”
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Studysummary This narrative review highlights that endurance, skill-oriented athletes, and physique-oriented competitors such as bodybuilders face accelerated degradation of fillers and botulinum neurotoxin due to elevated basal metabolic rates and other factors, and raised concerns about psychological conditions like body dysmorphic disorder in these populations.
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