Nutrition for injured athletes
Explore our lecture on “Nutrition for injured athletes” with Professor Ben Wall. In this session, Ben examines the unique nutritional challenges faced by injured athletes, particularly when injury leads to reduced training, immobilisation, disuse, muscle atrophy, and impaired muscle protein synthesis. The lecture explores how energy balance, protein intake, early mobilisation, and selected supplements such as omega-3 fish oils may help limit athlete deconditioning around injury.
What we will cover:
Why does injury create a unique nutritional challenge for athletes?
What happens to muscle mass and strength, during immobilisation?
How should energy intake be adjusted when training load is reduced?
What role does protein intake play in limiting muscle loss?
Can supplements help reduce disuse-related muscle atrophy?
What we will cover:
Why does injury create a unique nutritional challenge for athletes?
What happens to muscle mass and strength, during immobilisation?
How should energy intake be adjusted when training load is reduced?
What role does protein intake play in limiting muscle loss?
Can supplements help reduce disuse-related muscle atrophy?
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Professor Ben Wall
Professor Ben Wall graduated from the University of Birmingham in Sport and Exercise Sciences in 2006 before taking up a PhD position in the School of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Nottingham. Ben’s PhD research examined the integration of fat and carbohydrate metabolism during exercise in humans. In 2010, Ben moved to Maastricht University in the Netherlands to undertake post-doctoral training under the guidance of Professor Luc van Loon. This research focused on the mechanisms underlying muscle loss under varying conditions (e.g. ageing, inactivity) or muscle gain in response to anabolic stimuli (e.g. exercise training). Moreover, a key emphasis was placed on developing nutritional- and/or exercise-based strategies to attenuate muscle loss or augment muscle hypertrophy in a variety of situations, with an ultimate goal of improving health and/or performance in different populations. Ben joined the School of Sport and Health Sciences at the University of Exeter in 2014 as a Lecturer in exercise physiology and nutrition, and his current research focusses on the role of (in)activity and nutrition in health and performance.
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