Effect of Eight Weeks High Intensity Aerobic Trainingon Migrane Headache Indicators

Migraine is a common neurological disorder which causes numerous pain and suffering for patients. In addition to the pharmacological treatments, a non-pharmacological treatment such as exercise is recommended to prevent migraine. This study aimed to investigate the effects of high intensity aerobic training on migraine indicators in the patients. The present semi-experimental study with one-group pretest-posttest designing was done on migraine patients of Noorabad City, Iran, using convenience sampling. 12 inactive men with migraine were participated in this study. The study was last 16 weeks. The subjects did high intensity aerobic training in 40-45min and 2 sessions in the week. 48hours after the last training session, body composition indices and aerobic endurance and 4 weeks after completion of the training program, migraine headache indices were reassessed. Statistical analysis was done using student T-test for dependent group by SPSS 19 software. High intensity aerobic training reduced migraine headache indicators including the attacks frequency (p=0.025), severity of the attacks (p=0.024) and the duration (p=0.031) and it also improved the aerobic fitness of the subjects (p=0.001) significantly. Lipid percentage reduced 1.49% significantly (p=0.024). 8 weeks of high intensity aerobic training program can reduce the migraine headache indices (migraine attack frequency, intensity and the duration).