NCT01590251

Yoga for Pain and Opioid Dependence

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 1 / Phase 2
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 8 (actual)
• Sponsor: Yale University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study is designed to develop an effective adjunctive treatment using yoga for chronic pain and opioid dependence.

Detailed description

This study aims to develop an adjunctive novel treatment intervention using yoga in opioid agonist maintained patients to effectively treat the co-occurring disorders of non-malignant chronic pain and opioid dependence (POD). Specific Aims: 1\) To conduct a pre-pilot phase with 8 patients with POD receiving opioid agonist maintenance treatment.

Conditions

• Chronic Pain
• Opioid Addiction

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Yoga	Two yoga sessions per week for 8 weeks (one yoga session is instructional, the other is a practice session.
BEHAVIORAL	Educational Counseling	One didactic session per week of approximately 50 minutes that provides information about chronic pain and substance abuse disorders.

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-04-01
• Primary completion: 2014-11-01
• Completion: 2014-11-01
• First posted: 2012-05-02
• Last updated: 2015-09-25

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States