Yoga in the Treatment of Adolescent Idiopathic and Degenerative Scoliosis

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

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Scoliosis; Scoliosis Idiopathic
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: Yoga poses

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.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 100
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • New York
    • New York, New York, United States, 10022
      • Manhattan Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 6 years to 105 years (ADULT, OLDER_ADULT, CHILD)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Scoliosis
• Willingness to do pose at least once daily for 4 -10 months
• Willingness to have a second X-ray 4-10 months after starting to do pose

Exclusion Criteria:

• Neuromuscular disease
• Previous Spinal surgery
• Pregnancy

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: TREATMENT
• Allocation: NA
• Interventional Model: SEQUENTIAL
• Masking: NONE

Number of Arms

1

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
EXPERIMENTAL: Experimental arm; Patients will have an X-ray before beginning to do one or two yoga poses daily for 4 - 10 months. After that period, they will have a second X-ray.	Behavioral: Yoga poses; Patients are asked to perform one or two yoga poses daily for 4-10 months

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Change in Cobb angle	Baseline scoliotic curve - scoliotic curve measured after treatment	4 - 10 months

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Manhattan Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, LLP
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Loren M Fishman, MD, Columbia Medical School

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (ACTUAL): January 1, 2015
• Primary Completion (ACTUAL): March 1, 2018
• Study Completion (ACTUAL): January 1, 2019

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: April 7, 2017
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: April 11, 2017
• First Posted (ACTUAL): April 12, 2017

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (ACTUAL): August 26, 2022
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: August 23, 2022
• Last Verified: August 1, 2022

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Musculoskeletal Diseases; Spinal Diseases; Bone Diseases; Spinal Curvatures; Scoliosis
• Other Study ID Numbers: MANHATTANPMR

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No