exercise help
 

Mate of mine is 4 months in his pcs. He is still suffering from low scale headeches, neck pain and anxity.

Yesterday he started doing some light exercise in his garage. He said he is going to be hitting his punching bag for 15mins every day.

Is there any chance he can get another concussion or aggravate his symptoms by hitting punching bag. Cause of the strike force when you hit bag.

I'm just bit worried and wanna tell him the right answere.

Thanks

I would not recommend the punching bag exercise. As you said, the impact forces can impact his head. The term is sub-concussive impacts. Cumulatively, they can be worse that a direct head impact.

Sounds logical to me too.

Slow & smooth activities would be better I think.

Spoke to me Docter today about the same thing.he said its very unlikely to cause any danger. According to him we don't generate enough force from such impacts to do any damage.

A lot of wrong information comes from doctors. If a person has TBI or PCS such activity can definitely be dangerous. For some people the movement from just walking creates problems. The damage inside our brains is much different than damage to the outside of our bodies. Every jar or even fast movement of the head can wipe out weeks and months of recovery.

I would definitely pass on the punching bag practice. He could consider resuming this activity *slowly* and carefully once his symptoms are completely resolved. Lots of people on this site wish they hadn't overdone it early in their recoveries - your SO has the opportunity to learn from their experience and have a better recovery as a result.

I would say "absolutely," but then, I physically could not have done that. I couldn't even walk. The only thing that worked for me at all was bike riding.