NCT03110965

Yoga in the Treatment of Adolescent Idiopathic and Degenerative Scoliosis

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 100 (actual)
• Sponsor: Manhattan Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, LLP · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 6 Years – 105 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The effect of two isometric exercises is measured on Cobb angles from films taken 4-10 months apart.

Detailed description

The investigators obtained baseline Cobb angles on simple and complex curves, and collected previous, earlier studies of each adolescent idiopathic and degenerative scoliosis patient. The investigators then taught them to do the side-plank pose with the convex side of lumbar and thoracolumbar scoliotic curves downward, and a slightly altered version of the the half moon pose of yoga with the convex side of thoracic and cervicothoracic curves downward. The half moon pose was altered in that a belt was looped around the horizontal leg's foot, and held in a vertically extended upper arm's hand, and pulled tightly in that vertical position. Each pose was held as long as the patient could at least once daily. Cobb angles were again measured in films taken 4-10 months later.

Conditions

• Scoliosis
• Scoliosis Idiopathic

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Yoga poses	Patients are asked to perform one or two yoga poses daily for 4-10 months

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-01-01
• Primary completion: 2018-03-01
• Completion: 2019-01-01
• First posted: 2017-04-12
• Last updated: 2022-08-26

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States