Effect of Yoga on Mood and Quality of Life in Patients With Refractory Epilepsy

University of Kansas

Status: Completed

Conditions: Depression; Anxiety

Treatments: Other: Yoga

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT02950636

UL1TR000001 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

STUDY00140045

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to learn if a structured yoga program can reduce anxiety, improve depression, and improve quality of life in patients with medication resistant epilepsy (MRE).

Enrollment: 3 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 75 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Diagnosis of unilateral or bilateral temporal lobe epilepsy
• Presence 3 or more seizures per month
• No medical contraindications to yoga
• Willing and able to perform simple non strenuous yoga exercises
• Ability to get on the floor and up again without assistance
• Ambulatory
• Ability to travel to the yoga class twice a week

Exclusion criteria

• Any yoga in the last 6 months
• Inability to perform yoga exercises
• History of epilepsy surgery within the last year
• Currently pregnant or less than 6 week postpartum

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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3 participants in 1 patient group

Restorative Yoga

Experimental group

Description:

Subjects will participate in a structured restorative yoga program. Subjects will attend a 60 minute restorative yoga class twice a week for 8 weeks in a yoga studio.

Treatment:

Other: Yoga