Adding aerobic exercises to exposure therapy for PTSD can improve the therapy's benefits, new research suggests.
The researchers found no significant differences in PTSD severity, as measured by CAPS-2 score, between treatment groups at 10 weeks — ie, immediately posttreatment .
There were also superior benefits found in the aerobic vs the stretching group on depression severity at 6 months , with a mean difference in Beck Depression Inventory-2 score of 5.7 , yielding a"moderate effect size" . Additionally, they did not perform sex-specific analyses."Future studies could increase the sample size to investigate sex differences because females display less BDNF change following exercise than do males," they write.
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