• Arch Phys Med Rehabil · Apr 2015

    Clinical Trial

    Improved cognitive performance following aerobic exercise training in people with traumatic brain injury.

    • Lisa M Chin, Randall Eugene Keyser, John Dsurney, and Leighton Chan.
    • Department of Rehabilitation Science, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA; Rehabilitation Medicine Department, National Institutes of Health, Clinical Center, Bethesda, MD. Electronic address: lchin2@gmu.edu.
    • Arch Phys Med Rehabil. 2015 Apr 1;96(4):754-9.

    ObjectiveTo examine cognitive function in individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI) prior to and after participation in an aerobic exercise training program.DesignPre-post intervention study.SettingMedical research center.ParticipantsVolunteer sample of individuals (N=7) (age, 33.3±7.9y) with chronic nonpenetrating TBI (injury severity: 3=mild, 4=moderate; time since most current injury: 4.0±5.5y) who were ambulatory.InterventionTwelve weeks of supervised vigorous aerobic exercise training performed 3 times a week for 30 minutes on a treadmill.Main Outcome MeasuresCognitive function was assessed using the Trail Making Test Part A (TMT-A), Trail Making Test Part B (TMT-B), and Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status (RBANS). Sleep quality and depression were measured with the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) and Beck Depression Inventory, version 2 (BDI-II). Indices of cardiorespiratory fitness were used to examine the relation between improvements in cognitive function and cardiorespiratory fitness.ResultsAfter training, improvements in cognitive function were observed with greater scores on the TMT-A (10.3±6.8; P=.007), TMT-B (9.6±7.0; P=.011), and RBANS total scale (13.3±9.3; P=.009). No changes were observed in measures of the PSQI and BDI-II. The magnitude of cognitive improvements was also strongly related to the gains in cardiorespiratory fitness.ConclusionsThese findings suggest that vigorous aerobic exercise training may improve specific aspects of cognitive function in individuals with TBI and cardiorespiratory fitness gains may be a determinant of these improvements.Copyright © 2015 American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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