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An Evaluation of Yoga Therapy for Cervical Spondylosis

NCT04113473 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 62

Last updated 2019-10-02

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Summary

Cervical spondylosis is a chronic degenerative condition, commonly affecting \>40-year-old adults worldwide. Cervical spondylosis is an important cause of neck pain and low back pain, and seriously affects the physical health, mental health, patients quality of life. Yoga has been most commonly used intervention for pain conditions. But its efficacy in cervical spondylosis has not yet been studied in clinical trials. The primary aim of the present study was to assess the efficacy of yoga chikitsa (therapy) compared with control intervention for neck pain caused by cervical spondylosis.

Conditions

  • Cervical Spondylosis
  • Neck Pain

Interventions

OTHER

Yoga Therapy

An hour of yoga therapy included loosening exercise (sukshma vyayama), yoga postures (asana), yoga breathing (pranayama), relaxation (shavasana) and meditation. Each participant were given handouts to follow home practice sessions everyday for twice a day for at least 15 minutes.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Yog-Kulam

    collaborator OTHER

  • NMP Medical Research Institute

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Neha Sharma, PhD · Yog-Kulam

  • Shekhar Sharma · NMP Medical Research Institute, India

  • Jaydeep Joshi · Yog-Kulam

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-12-11
Primary Completion
2019-07-12
Completion
2019-08-30

Countries

  • India

Study Locations

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