Yoga Exercise for Improving Balance in Patients With Subacute &Ｃhronic Stroke

Yoga Exercise for Improving Balance in Patients With Subacute &Ｃhronic Stroke : A Pilot Study

Status

Completed

Phases

Study type

Interventional

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT01806922

Enrollment

Registered

2013-03-07

Start date

2013-03-31

Completion date

2014-02-28

Last updated

2014-02-11

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Conditions

Depression, Stroke

Keywords

Yoga, Stroke, Standing balance, Depression

Brief summary

Hypothesis: This study investigated the hypothesis that subacute and chronic stroke patients who received a combination of yoga and traditional physiotherapy were getting more improvement in standing balance than traditional physiotherapy. And we also hypothesis yoga can improve post-stroke depression symtom.

Interventions

BEHAVIORALYoga

Study design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Intervention model

PARALLEL

Primary purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

SINGLE (Outcomes Assessor)

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

30 Years to 80 Years

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. The time of stroke onset is more than 91 days. 2. Able to stand for more than 1 minutes. 3. Between the ages of 30 and 80.

Exclusion criteria

1. Now receive others palliative therapy. 2. Significant psychotic disease. 3. Obvious language disorder. 4. Medical contraindication(clincans evaluate cannot included).

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Berg Balance Scale	within 7 days after finish yoga therapy course

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
Taiwanese Depression Questionnaire	within 7 days after finish yoga therapy course

Countries

Taiwan

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026