Aerobic Exercise for Adolescents With Prolonged Symptoms After Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: An Exploratory Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To describe the methodology and report primary outcomes of an exploratory randomized clinical trial (RCT) of aerobic training for management of prolonged symptoms after a mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) in adolescents.

Setting

Outpatient research setting.

Participants

Thirty adolescents between the ages of 12 and 17 years who sustained a mTBI and had between 4 and 16 weeks of persistent symptoms.

Design

Partially blinded, pilot RCT of subsymptom exacerbation aerobic training compared with a full-body stretching program.

Main measures

The primary outcome was postinjury symptom improvement assessed by the adolescent's self-reported Post-Concussion Symptom Inventory (PCSI) repeated for at least 6 weeks of the intervention. Parent-reported PCSI

SUBMITTER: Kurowski BG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5081281 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar/Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature