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Yoga for Chronic Low Back Pain

NCT00865358 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE2 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 30

Last updated 2012-12-05

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Summary

Chronic low back pain is the most common cause of pain in the United States. Common treatments such as medication, physical therapy, and surgery often do not provide adequate relief. Yoga has shown promise for improving low back pain in studies of predominantly middle class white individuals. We will assess the feasibility and collect preliminary data on yoga for chronic low back pain in predominantly minority individuals in a community health center setting in a low income neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. We hypothesize that offering yoga for this population is feasible and will show promising efficacy and safety data.

Conditions

  • Chronic Low Back Pain

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Yoga Group

Reproducible standardized 12 week series of hatha yoga classes specifically developed for patients with chronic low back pain and little or no experience with yoga

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Boston Medical Center

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Robert B Saper, MD MPH · Boston Medical Center

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
64 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2007-02-28
Primary Completion
2007-07-31
Completion
2008-01-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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