Comparing the Effects of Yoga Nidra to Yoga Nidra With Pain Acceptance Intention and Motor Imagery on Pain Outcomes

University of Central Florida

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Chronic Pain

Treatments: Other: Yoga Nidra with Pain Acceptance Intention; Other: Yoga Nidra with Pain Acceptance Intervention and Motor Imagery; Other: Yoga Nidra

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06590181

YN10

Details and patient eligibility

About

Yoga Nidra is a scripted mind-body intervention (MBI) that uses guided relaxation technique in a reproducible sequence of mechanisms that naturally produce a parasympathetic response. This is a randomized controlled trial in which participants will be randomly assigned to one of three interventions: 1) yoga nidra (Yoga Nidra Script Basic), 2) yoga nidra with pain acceptance (Yoga Nidra Acceptance Intention), 3) yoga nidra with pain acceptance and Explicit Motor Imagery (Yoga Nidra Acceptance Intention and Visualization).

Enrollment: 60 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 75 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Chronic pain in the neck, low back, shoulder, hip, elbow, knee, wrist, or ankle that has lasted for over three months
• Pain intensity rated as 3/10 or higher in the past 24 hours (0=no pain, 10=worst pain imaginable)

Exclusion criteria

• non-English speaking
• systemic medical conditions that affect sensation (such as uncontrolled diabetes)
• History of surgery or fracture within the past six months
• any blood clotting disorders (such as hemophilia)
• any contraindication to the application of ice (blood pressure > 140/90 mmHg, cold urticaria, cryoglobulinemia, paroxysmal cold hemoglobinuria, circulatory compromise)
• Exceed pressure and heat sensory thresholds
• Unable to access internet or email
• Pregnant

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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60 participants in 3 patient groups

Yoga Nidra

Experimental group

Description:

This protocol is derived from The Origin and Clinical Relevance of Yoga Nidra (Pandi-Perumal, S. R. 2022) and is approximately 20 minutes total time.

Treatment:

Other: Yoga Nidra

Yoga Nidra and Pain Acceptance Intention

Active Comparator group

Description:

Yoga Nidra plus a Pain Acceptance Intention.

Treatment:

Other: Yoga Nidra with Pain Acceptance Intention

Yoga Nidra with Pain Acceptance Intervention and Motor Imagery

Active Comparator group

Description:

Yoga Nidra plus pain acceptance and motor imagery

Treatment:

Other: Yoga Nidra with Pain Acceptance Intervention and Motor Imagery