Early Targeted Heart Rate Aerobic Exercise Reduces Proportion of Subacute Musculoskeletal Injuries After Recovery From Sport-Related Concussion.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

There is greater risk of musculoskeletal (MSK) injury after clinical recovery from sport-related concussion (SRC). We determined whether aerobic exercise treatment within 10 days of SRC reduced the proportion of MSK injury in recovered adolescent athletes at 4 months since injury.

Design

Planned secondary analysis of a randomized trial of aerobic exercise versus stretching exercise in adolescents after SRC.

Setting

Outpatient and hospital-based sports medicine centers.

Participants

Aerobic exercise (n = 38, 58% male, 15.6 years) and stretching exercise (n = 25, 64% male, 15.9 years) participants completed a questionnaire at 3.5 and 3.3 months since recovery, respectively.

Interventions

Individualized subthreshold aerobic exercise versus placebo

SUBMITTER: Leddy JJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11526801 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature