1414 - Strength Training in the Older Adult: The Fountain of Youth

Saturday, October 22, 2022

3:45 PM – 5:00 PM ET

Location: 337-338

Session Director(s)

Neal Mesnick, MD

Clinical Assistant Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine
Weill Cornell Medicine
New York, New York

Disclosed no relevant financial relationships.

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Faculty(s)

Prakash Jayabalan, MD PhD

Director, Clinical Musculoskeletal Research/Assistant Professor
Shirley Ryan AbilityLab
Chicago, Illinois

Disclosed no relevant financial relationships.
Lyn Weiss, MD

Chair of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
New York University Langone Hospital Long Island
Jericho, New York

Disclosed no relevant financial relationships.

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This session will discuss sarcopenia and best practices to reverse loss of muscle strength in the adult/geriatric population. Topics will include resistance training programming and proper prescription of program variables based on the current literature. Lectures will cover sarcopenia as well as muscle protein synthesis. Indications as well as contraindications of progressive resistance training and exercise selection in the adult population.

Learning Objectives:

The implications of sarcopenia in an aging society and how to better treat it.
Properly prescribe a resistance training program for older adults using program design elements including volume, intensity and frequency.
Understand the SRA (stimulus, recovery, adaptaion) curve and muscle protein synthesis.

Presentations:

Resistance Training Program Design
Speaker: Neal A. Mesnick, MD – Weill Cornell Medicine
Sarcopenia: What Is It?
Speaker: K. Rao R. Poduri, MD, FAAPMR – UNC at Chapel Hill
Proper Recovery After Strength Training
Speaker: Prakash Jayabalan, MD, PhD – Shirley Ryan AbilityLab