Tele-Yoga Therapy for Chronic Pain

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

Status

Completed

Phases

Study type

Interventional

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT04457388

Enrollment

Registered

2020-07-07

Start date

2020-03-25

Completion date

2020-06-15

Last updated

2020-07-08

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Conditions

Chronic Pain

Keywords

Tele-Yoga Therapy, Chronic Pain

Brief summary

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.

Interventions

OTHERTele-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.

Study design

Allocation

Intervention model

SINGLE_GROUP

Primary purpose

SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Masking

NONE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

18 Years to 60 Years

Healthy volunteers

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

Design outcomes

Primary

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

Secondary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Pain Disability	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)
Anxiety	From Baseline to 6-week post intervention	Hospital Anxiety Depression Scale, consisting of 7 scales for measuring anxiety levels
Depression	From baseline to 6-week post intervention	Hospital Anxiety Depression Scale, consisting of 7 scales for measuring depression levels

Countries

United Kingdom

Outcome results

None listed

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