Group Acupuncture Therapy With Modified Yoga
CompletedNot applicableNCT04296344
View the official record on ClinicalTrials.gov Recruiting status changes often. Contact the study team listed on ClinicalTrials.gov, and talk to your doctor before joining a study.
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 pain is prevalent in the U.S., with impact on physical and psychological functioning as well as lost work productivity. Minority and lower socioeconomic populations have increased prevalence of chronic pain with less access to pain care and poorer outcomes. Acupuncture therapy is effective in treating chronic pain conditions including chronic low back pain (cLBP), neck pain, shoulder pain and knee pain from osteoarthritis (OA). Acupuncture therapy, including group acupuncture, is feasible and effective, and specifically so for underserved and diverse populations at risk for health outcome disparities. Acupuncture therapy also encourages patient engagement and activation. As chronic pain improves there is a natural progression to want and need to increase activity and movement recovery. Diverse movement approaches are important both for improving range of motion, maintaining gains, strengthening and promoting patient engagement and activation. Yoga therapy is an active therapy with proven benefit in musculoskeletal pain disorders and pain associated disability. The aim of this pilot feasibility trial is to test the bundling of these two care options for chronic pain, to inform both the design for a larger randomized pragmatic effectiveness trial as well as implementation strategies across underserved settings.
Study details
- Official title
- Group Acupuncture Therapy With Modified Yoga for Chronic Neck, Low Back and OA Pain in Safety Net Setting for an Underserved Population (GAPYOGA)
- Conditions
- Chronic Neck Pain
- Chronic Low Back Pain
- Osteoarthritis Pain
- Interventions
- Other: Acupuncture Therapy Treatments
- Other: Yoga Therapy Sessions
- Sponsor
- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
- Collaborators
- The Institute for Family Health; Albert Einstein College of Medicine; Maryland University of Integrative Health
- Start date
- 2019-01-08
- Primary completion
- 2020-11-11
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 21 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- true
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- United States
- Total sites listed
- 3
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * Patients 21 years of age or older * Chronic pain (three months or more in duration) due to a qualifying diagnosis of back pain, neck pain, and/or osteoarthritis. * Eligible patients must be receiving primary care at a participating IFH or Montefiore Medical Group site * Participants must understand and be able to provide consent in English or Spanish * Reliable contact phone numbers must be available to facilitate scheduling, * Availability for up to 10 weekly consecutive treatments and * Availability for follow-up data collection at 24 weeks Exclusion criteria: * Receipt of acupuncture treatment or yoga instruction/therapy in the 6 months prior to recruitment * Pregnancy * Severe psychiatric problems as assessed by the study team (e.g., chronic interpersonal problems, cognitive impairment or active psychosis that is uncontrolled by medication that precludes the ability to provide informed consent or complete the survey instruments)
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT04296344