Tele-Yoga Therapy for Chronic Pain

July 7, 2020 updated by: Aarogyam UK

Tele- Yoga Therapy for Patients With Chronic Pain During Covid-19 Lockdown: A Prospective Non-randomized Single Arm Clinical Trial

Chronic pain is highly prevalent and associated with a large symptom burden, that is had been more concerning during Covid-19 outbreak and lockdown. Benefits of yoga in chronic pain management are very well known. With this background we developed Tele-Yoga therapy program and evaluated the success of this single arm study.

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

18

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

  • United Kingdom
    • Leicestershire
      • Leicester, Leicestershire, United Kingdom
        • Aarogyam UK

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

18 years to 60 years (Adult)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Chronic pain for at least 3 months
  • Having access to internet and video calls

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Pregnant or breast-feeding women,
  • Patients not willing to give written consent
  • Patients with severe psychiatric or personality disorder
  • Malignancy

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Supportive Care
  • Allocation: N/A
  • Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
  • Masking: None (Open Label)

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Tele-Yoga Therapy
Individualised Yoga therapy based on participant's clinical condition and personal needs. Twice a week sessions were carried out by trained and experienced Yoga therapist via video conference with each therapy for individualized based on each participant.
Other: Tele-Yoga Therapy
Yoga practices combining with joint loosening exercises (Sukshma Vyayama), postures (Asana), breathing exercises (Pranayama), relaxation techniques and chanting ( A, U, M, and AUM { ૐ}) syllable chants meditation. Each session ended with home practice exercises given to the participants to practice everyday.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Pain Intensity
Time Frame: From baseline to 6-week post intervention
visual-analogic scale (VAS), using pain level from "no pain" (0) to "worst imaginable pain" (10)
From baseline to 6-week post intervention

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Pain Disability
Time Frame: From baseline to 6-week post intervention
Pain Disability Index (PDI) using seven rating scales, structured in Likert form, from "no disability" (0) to "worst disability" (10)
From baseline to 6-week post intervention
Anxiety
Time Frame: From Baseline to 6-week post intervention
Hospital Anxiety Depression Scale, consisting of 7 scales for measuring anxiety levels
From Baseline to 6-week post intervention
Depression
Time Frame: From baseline to 6-week post intervention
Hospital Anxiety Depression Scale, consisting of 7 scales for measuring depression levels
From baseline to 6-week post intervention

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

Aarogyam UK

Investigators

  • Study Chair: Bhavna Pandya, Aarogyam UK
  • Principal Investigator: Neha Sharma, Aarogyam UK
  • Study Chair: Dipa Modi, Aarogyam UK

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start (Actual)

March 25, 2020

Primary Completion (Actual)

June 15, 2020

Study Completion (Actual)

June 15, 2020

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

June 30, 2020

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

June 30, 2020

First Posted (Actual)

July 7, 2020

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

July 8, 2020

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

July 7, 2020

Last Verified

July 1, 2020

More Information

Terms related to this study

Keywords

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

Other Study ID Numbers

  • AU/018

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?

UNDECIDED

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

No

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

No

This information was retrieved directly from the website clinicaltrials.gov without any changes. If you have any requests to change, remove or update your study details, please contact register@clinicaltrials.gov. As soon as a change is implemented on clinicaltrials.gov, this will be updated automatically on our website as well.

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