First patients included in TRUE-GRIT and FeelFit!

After preparing for a long time, Maxine and Marieke have included their first patients for their respective studies on improving cognitive complaints and physical fitness!

Maxine will use repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) combined with a strategy training to improve the cognitive complaints that many patients with a glioma experience. We hope that by tailoring the stimulation target to individual patients’ functional network, the effects of the stimulation and training are more synergistic, and patients benefit more! The pic above shows Maxine (left) and our wonderful study coordinator Brigit (right) after the first week of rTMS treatments!

Marieke’s FeelFit study aims to improve physical fitness in these patients in a time-efficient way. She has patients, who feel ‘unfit’, do high intensity interval training (HIIT), which consists of biweekly, short training sessions on a stationary bike. We hope that people feel fitter, without having to spend a lot of time in the gym!

More info (in Dutch) on both studies can be found here.