NCT03286933

Yoga Therapy for Adolescents With Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 10 (actual)
• Sponsor: Children's Hospital Los Angeles · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 14 Years – 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of the study is to better understand the effects of a yoga program on adolescents with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA). The investigators want to learn whether or not a yoga therapy based program will decrease pain and improve quality of life in patients with JIA. This is an 8-week program with home program of online videos.

Detailed description

This is an 8-week program consisting of weekly yoga therapy classes in a public studio. The classes are led by a pediatric occupational therapist who is also a certified internationally accredited yoga therapist (C-IAYT). The initial and final sessions will include an Rheumatologist MD evaluation including a physician global assessment and joint damage assessment (JADI) and visual assessment (VAS). A Visual Analog Pain Scale will and Peds Quality of Life Questionnaire-Arthritis Module 4.0 will be administered. Each yoga class is 75 minutes to include a set-sequence of postures including breathing exercises and final corpse pose (final relaxation).

Conditions

• Adolescent Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis
• Yoga Therapy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	yoga	75 minute weekly group yoga classes for 8 weeks. Home program online.

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-05-06
• Primary completion: 2017-06-26
• Completion: 2017-06-26
• First posted: 2017-09-19
• Last updated: 2017-09-19

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States