A Prospective, Randomized-controlled Study to Evaluate the Effect of a Standardized Yoga Practice on Chronic Back Pain
Status: Recruiting
Location: See location...
Intervention Type: Behavioral
Study Type: Interventional
Study Phase: Not Applicable
SUMMARY
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.
Eligibility
Participation Requirements
Sex: All
Minimum Age: 18
Healthy Volunteers: f
View:
• Willingness to and ability to participate in study procedures
• Chronic back pain (pain above the gluteal cleft of at least 3 months duration)
Locations
United States
New York
NYULangone
RECRUITING
New York
Contact Information
Primary
Erich Anderer, MD
erich.anderer@nyulangone.org
(718) 630-6580
Time Frame
Start Date: 2019-12-01
Estimated Completion Date: 2027-01-01
Participants
Target number of participants: 200
Treatments
No_intervention: Control arm
The control arm will involve usual care - 6 weeks of physical therapy, NSAIDs, and epidural steroid injections
Experimental: Yoga Arm
The study arm will involve a yoga protocol devised by Eddie Stern - a renowned Ashtanga yoga practitioner, and can include NSAIDs.
Related Therapeutic Areas
Sponsors
Leads: NYU Langone Health