Concussion, Exercise Rehabilitation, and Strength Training

Dear Colleagues,

Concussion in sport continues to be an important issue for people involved in sport at all levels. An emerging area of interest is understanding the time course of recovery following concussion, and the acknowledgement of the role of exercise as a tool for the management and rehabilitation of concussed athletes. Exercise rehabilitation is well established across a number of areas in health, and among diseased cohorts, with the aim of bringing individuals back to full function following injury or illness. Exercise modalities that can help an individual back to full recovery from musculoskeletal injury include strength training and aerobic exercise, as well as agility, balance, and flexibility training.

The 6^th International Conference of Concussion in Sport will be held in October this year. Exercise as an accepted form of rehabilitation was first acknowledged in the 2017 Consensus statement. Many questions remain unresolved regarding exercise rehabilitation for concussion injury. The aim of this Special Issue is to attract papers that address the contributions of any types of exercise training in the rehabilitation phase following concussion injury. We welcome studies (RCTs, observational, or translational) that examine the effects of exercise regimens; including exercise-testing studies, aerobic or strength training interventions post concussion, psychological responses following exercise rehabilitation, or studies that include both cognitive and exercise interventions. We also welcome narrative or systematic reviews, case–control studies, case series, and n = 1 case studies.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• The efficacy of different exercise training programs on concussion recovery.
• Differences between males and females in concussion severity and responses following exercise rehabilitation.
• Applied performance testing for quantifying the time course of recovery post concussion.
• Physiological and/or molecular mechanisms of concussion recovery.

Assoc. Prof. Alan J. Pearce
Assoc. Prof. Lainie Cameron
Guest Editors

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• Concussion
• Mild traumatic brain injury
• Exercise rehabilitation
• Neuromuscular function
• Resistance training
• Injury risk