Cervical spondylosis is a chronic degenerative condition, commonly affecting \>40-year-old adults worldwide. Cervical spondylosis is an important cause of neck pain and low back pain, and seriously affects the physical health, mental health, patients quality of life. Yoga has been most commonly used intervention for pain conditions. But its efficacy in cervical spondylosis has not yet been studied in clinical trials. The primary aim of the present study was to assess the efficacy of yoga chikitsa (therapy) compared with control intervention for neck pain caused by cervical spondylosis.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
62
An hour of yoga therapy included loosening exercise (sukshma vyayama), yoga postures (asana), yoga breathing (pranayama), relaxation (shavasana) and meditation. Each participant were given handouts to follow home practice sessions everyday for twice a day for at least 15 minutes.
Pain Clinic, NMP Medical Research Institute
Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
Neck pain
ain intensity was measured by a 10-cm VAS scale, with 0 = "no Pain" and 10 = "the worst imaginable pain
Time frame: Change from baseline to 12 weeks
Disability
Neck disability was measured using neck disability index (NDI) score
Time frame: Change from baseline to 12 weeks
Health related Quality of Life
Short Form-36 assessed the Quality of life
Time frame: change from baseline to 12 weeks
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