Tutorial 4/6
This online session will address nutritional strategies for mitigating injury/disuse-associated muscle loss. This will include an overview of the mechanisms of muscle loss, how injury and recovery alter energy requirements, and how nutrition needs to be meticulously altered to account for these changes. The role of protein and other nutritions for mitigating this muscle loss will also be covered, inlcuding a critical analysis of a scientific study.
Slides & certificates will be sent out after each tutorial!
To understand the timeline and causes of disuse/injury-associated muscle loss
To appreciate how recovery from injury can alter energy requirements
To recognise the importance of protein, and other nutrients for minimising muscle loss
To be able to critically analyse a scientific paper
