Lifestyle Approaches to Improve Secondary Health Complications in Individuals with SCI (848161)

Thursday, October 22, 2020

4:45 PM – 6:00 PM EST

Presenter(s)

Ceren Yarar-Fisher, PT, PhD

Assistant Professor
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Hoover, Alabama

Presentation Slides Presentation + Audio
Ashraf S. Gorgey, MPT, PhD, FACSM, FACRM

Director of Spinal Cord Injury Research
Hunter Holmes McGuire VA Medical Center
Richmond, Virginia

Presentation Slides Presentation + Audio
JT

J. Andrew Taylor, PhD

Associate Professor
Harvard Medical School
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Short narrative: This symposium will cover secondary health complications following SCI and describe lifestyle approaches to improve long-term health in this population.

Learning Objectives:

Describe the effects of SCI on body composition, glucose tolerance and insulin sensitivity in individuals with long-standing SCI.
Describe the effects of SCI on muscle biology in individuals with long-standing SCI.
Describe the effects of electrically evoked resistance training with and without androgen supplementation on metabolism, body composition, skeletal muscle fiber type distribution, hypertrophy, and mitochondria function.
Describe the effects of moderate to high intensity functional electrical stimulation induced whole body exercise on body composition in the sub-acute phase (<2 years) after SCI.
Describe the effects of low carbohydrate/high protein diet on metabolism, body composition, and microbiome composition in individuals with SCI and insulin resistance.