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Muscle school: exercise muscle in health and disease (I edition)
July 14th- 25th July 2017
Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine
University of Pisa, Pisa
Muscle fatigue is the decline in ability of a muscle to generate force. It can be a result of vigorous exercise but abnormal fatigue may be caused by barriers to or interference with the different stages of muscle contraction.
Fatigue is a complex problem, since multiple factors are clearly involved.
The aim of the course will be to provide the state of the art and cutting-edge developments in knowledge and clinical approach of exercise training and muscle fatigue in healthy subjects and in patients with neuromuscular disease.
The course will highlight research findings related to fatigue in main neuromuscular disorders, approaching both the methological issues and clinical applications of more recent achievements on pathophysiology, diagnosis and treatment of this important manifestation of functional muscle impairment.
The program is organized in thematic sections within each of them divided in didactive lessons and pratical sections illustrating the applications of the topics.
PROGRAM
JULY 14 –FRIDAY
H 15-17
Introduction
Lecture: “Muscle exercise: from health to disease” Prof Corrado Angelini (Venezia)
Introduction: Prof. Gino Santoro (Pisa)
Welcome cocktail
JULY 15- SATURDAY
H 9-13
Skeletal muscle: structure, function and effect of exercise in normal conditions
Coordinator: Riccardo Ruffoli (Pisa)
JULY 17, MONDAY
H 9-13
Inside the mechanisms of muscle remodelling
Coordinator: Marco Gesi (Pisa)
H 15-18
Muscle training: strategies in healthy people
Coordinator: Fabio Galetta (Pisa)
JULY 18, TUESDAY
Skeletal muscle fatigue
H 9-13
Coordinator: Giuseppe D’Antona (Pavia)
JULY 19, WEDNESDAY
H 9-13
Clinical assessment of muscle fatigue in muscle diseases
Gabriele Siciliano (Pisa)
H 15-18
Laboratory investigations to study muscle fatigue
Michelangelo Mancuso (Pisa)
JULY 20, THURSDAY
H 9-13
Muscle diseases
Coordinator: Giulia Ricci (Pisa)
JULY 21, FREEDAY
H 9-13
Neurogenic diseases
Coordinator: Elena Caldarazzo Jenco (Pisa)
H 15-18
Exercise and fatigue in muscle diseases
Coordinator: Massimiliano Filosto (Brescia)
JULY 22, SATURDAY
H 9-13
Overtraining: clinical and molecular correlates
Coordinator: Ferdinando Franzoni (Pisa)
JULY 24, MONDAY
H 9-13
Aging and sarcopenia
Coordinator: Fabio Monzani (Pisa)
H 15-18
Diet and exercise, supplements and doping
Coordinator: Angelo Pizzi (Pisa)
JULY 25, TUESDAY
H 9-13
Discussion of case reports
Cordinators: Gabriele Siciliano, Ferdinando Franzoni
Learning questionnaire