The Effect of Yoga Practice on Chronic Back Pain
RecruitingNot applicableNCT04270617
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This study has no listed site in Canada in this snapshot. It is included as part of the worldwide chronic pain corpus.
Brief summary (from the registry)
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.
Study details
- Official title
- A Prospective, Randomized-controlled Study to Evaluate the Effect of a Standardized Yoga Practice on Chronic Back Pain
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Behavioral: Yoga program
- Sponsor
- NYU Langone Health
- Start date
- 2019-12-01
- Primary completion
- 2028-01
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- United States
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * Willingness to and ability to participate in study procedures * Chronic back pain (pain above the gluteal cleft of at least 3 months duration) Exclusion Criteria: * Indication for surgery (i.e., fracture, infection, scoliosis, spondylolisthesis) * Cardiac, pulmonary or other medical comorbidities that preclude participation in yoga practice
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT04270617