For Julie Mielcarek of Cocoa Beach, working out at the gym wasn’t on her list of healthy habits to start New Year’s Day, but then, a lot has happened. On the night of April 5, she lay awake in bed “feeling like a ball was bouncing around my chest.”
Aerobic exercise is a nonpharmacological intervention that has been shown to improve not only cardiovascular fitness, but also depressive symptoms, and cognition following traumatic brain injury.