NCT04113473

An Evaluation of Yoga Therapy for Cervical Spondylosis

Effectiveness of Yoga Therapy for Neck Pain Relief in Patients With Cervical Spondylosis

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 62 (actual)
• Sponsor: NMP Medical Research Institute · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 55 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Cervical spondylosis is a chronic degenerative condition, commonly affecting \>40-year-old adults worldwide. Cervical spondylosis is an important cause of neck pain and low back pain, and seriously affects the physical health, mental health, patients quality of life. Yoga has been most commonly used intervention for pain conditions. But its efficacy in cervical spondylosis has not yet been studied in clinical trials. The primary aim of the present study was to assess the efficacy of yoga chikitsa (therapy) compared with control intervention for neck pain caused by cervical spondylosis.

Conditions

• Cervical Spondylosis
• Neck Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Yoga Therapy	An hour of yoga therapy included loosening exercise (sukshma vyayama), yoga postures (asana), yoga breathing (pranayama), relaxation (shavasana) and meditation. Each participant were given handouts to follow home practice sessions everyday for twice a day for at least 15 minutes.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-12-11
• Primary completion: 2019-07-12
• Completion: 2019-08-30
• First posted: 2019-10-02
• Last updated: 2019-10-02

Locations

1 site across 1 country: India