NCT00940615

The Effect of Aerobic Exercise on Mild Traumatic Brain Injury

Aerobic Exercise in TBI: White Matter Integrity and Cognition

• Status: Terminated
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 24 (estimated)
• Sponsor: US Department of Veterans Affairs · Federal
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 50 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The current project will examine the effects of aerobic exercise on cognition among a group of veterans who have suffered a mild traumatic brain injury.

Detailed description

There is substantial evidence that a large number of individuals who experience TBI will demonstrate life-long deficits in cognitive or social functions. An estimated 80-90,000 Americans with TBI suffer life-long impairment of physical, cognitive, and psychosocial skills to the degree that they are unable to return to school or work. Research on rehabilitation for mTBI has been minimal and typically has focused on speech, pain management, dizziness, fatigue, irritability, and sensory disorders. The results of the few studies that have examined long-term cognitive effects of mTBI have offered conflicting results. The current research will investigate the efficacy of an aerobic exercise intervention among individuals with mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI). This project will examine changes in fractional anisotropy (FA) values and cognitive functioning among individuals diagnosed with mTBI in a monitored aerobic exercise regimen, versus a low impact stretching and toning control group.

Conditions

• Traumatic Brain Injury

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	aerobic exercise	, participants assigned to the exercise treatment group of the proposed study will participate in an aerobic exercise regimen of brisk walking on a treadmill for a 60 minute interval, three times a week
OTHER	stretching/toning	Individuals in the control group will participate in a low intensity stretching and toning session for 60 minutes, three times a week

Timeline

• Start date: 2009-09-01
• Primary completion: 2010-09-01
• Completion: 2010-09-01
• First posted: 2009-07-16
• Last updated: 2015-06-26

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States