Comparing the Effects of Yoga Nidra to Yoga Nidra With Pain Acceptance Intention and Motor Imagery on Pain Outcomes
Status: Recruiting
Location: See location...
Intervention Type: Other
Study Type: Interventional
Study Phase: Not Applicable
SUMMARY
Yoga Nidra is a scripted mind-body intervention (MBI) that uses guided relaxation technique in a reproducible sequence of mechanisms that naturally produce a parasympathetic response. This is a randomized controlled trial in which participants will be randomly assigned to one of three interventions: 1) yoga nidra (Yoga Nidra Script Basic), 2) yoga nidra with pain acceptance (Yoga Nidra Acceptance Intention), 3) yoga nidra with pain acceptance and Explicit Motor Imagery (Yoga Nidra Acceptance Intention and Visualization).
Eligibility
Participation Requirements
Sex: All
Minimum Age: 18
Maximum Age: 75
Healthy Volunteers: f
View:
• Chronic pain in the neck, low back, shoulder, hip, elbow, knee, wrist, or ankle that has lasted for over three months
• Pain intensity rated as 3/10 or higher in the past 24 hours (0=no pain, 10=worst pain imaginable)
Locations
United States
Florida
University of Central Florida
RECRUITING
Orlando
Contact Information
Primary
Abigail Anderson, PT, DPT, PhD
Abigail.Wilson@ucf.edu
407-823-1026
Time Frame
Start Date: 2024-09-12
Estimated Completion Date: 2025-09-15
Participants
Target number of participants: 60
Treatments
Experimental: Yoga Nidra
This protocol is derived from The Origin and Clinical Relevance of Yoga Nidra (Pandi-Perumal, S. R. 2022) and is approximately 20 minutes total time.
Active_comparator: Yoga Nidra and Pain Acceptance Intention
Yoga Nidra plus a Pain Acceptance Intention.
Active_comparator: Yoga Nidra with Pain Acceptance Intervention and Motor Imagery
Yoga Nidra plus pain acceptance and motor imagery
Related Therapeutic Areas
Sponsors
Leads: University of Central Florida