The Effect of Yoga Practice on Chronic Back Pain

Description

Chronic low back pain is notoriously difficult to treat and is a primary contributor to lost work days and excessive health expenditures, and whose treatment has, in part, contributed to the opioid crisis. Surgery is only an option in a minority of these patients, usually confined to those with structural instability. Yoga is an ancient modality whose benefits are currently being studied.

Conditions

Chronic Back Pain

Study Overview

Study Details

Study overview

Chronic low back pain is notoriously difficult to treat and is a primary contributor to lost work days and excessive health expenditures, and whose treatment has, in part, contributed to the opioid crisis. Surgery is only an option in a minority of these patients, usually confined to those with structural instability. Yoga is an ancient modality whose benefits are currently being studied.

A Prospective, Randomized-controlled Study to Evaluate the Effect of a Standardized Yoga Practice on Chronic Back Pain

The Effect of Yoga Practice on Chronic Back Pain

Condition
Chronic Back Pain
Intervention / Treatment

-

Contacts and Locations

New York

NYULangone, New York, New York, United States, 10003

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

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Eligibility Criteria

  • * Willingness to and ability to participate in study procedures
  • * Chronic back pain (pain above the gluteal cleft of at least 3 months duration)
  • * Indication for surgery (i.e., fracture, infection, scoliosis, spondylolisthesis)
  • * Cardiac, pulmonary or other medical comorbidities that preclude participation in yoga practice

Ages Eligible for Study

18 Years to

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Collaborators and Investigators

NYU Langone Health,

Erich Anderer, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, NYU Langone Health

Study Record Dates

2027-01-01