This is a pilot feasibility study investigating prenatal yoga for pregnancy related back pain.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
20
once weekly group yoga class for 12 weeks
once weekly group support class for 12 weeks
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
feasibility of recruitment
recruitment rate
Time frame: baseline
back pain disability
Roland Morris Disability Questionnaire (range 0-24), lower better
Time frame: baseline, 4, 8, 12 weeks
back pain severity
Back Pain Severity Visual Analogue Scale (rage 0-10), lower better
Time frame: baseline, 4, 8, 12 weeks
pregnancy symptoms
Pregnancy Symptom Inventory (range 0-123), lower better
Time frame: baseline, 4, 8, 12 weeks
depression
Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (range 0-30), lower better
Time frame: baseline, 4, 8, 12 weeks
quality of lfe
Short Form-12 (range 12-56), higher better
Time frame: baseline, 4, 8, 12 weeks
childbirth experience
Childbirth Experience (range 19-76), higher better
Time frame: postpartum visit
mobility lab- speed
instrumented gait speed
Time frame: baseline, 4, 8, 12 weeks
acceptability
class attendance
Time frame: 4,8, 12 weeks, postpartum
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mobility lab- double support
double support time
Time frame: baseline, 4, 8, 12 weeks
mobility lab- TUG
timed up and go time
Time frame: baseline, 4, 8, 12 weeks
mobility lab- turn
turn time
Time frame: baseline, 4, 8, 12 weeks