Effect of Yoga@Work Program

NMP Medical Research Institute

Status: Completed

Conditions: Musculoskeletal Pain; Shoulder Pain; Neck Pain

Treatments: Other: Yoga@work

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03840304

NMP 0198

Details and patient eligibility

About

Employees working in IT industry are prone to develop musculoskeletal pain,specifically back, neck and shoulder pain. This study evaluates the effectiveness of work-site yoga intervention, Yoga@work on neck and shoulder pain in IT employees.

Enrollment: 132 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 50 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• IT companies employee
• Full time employment
• Neck and Shoulder Pain
• pain of at least 3 months duration
• able to comply with intervention schedule

Exclusion criteria

• Pregnancy
• Refuse to give informed consent
• spinal fracture
• recent cervical spine or shoulder surgery
• recent (3 months) chemotherapy/radiotherapy/ intervention

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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132 participants in 2 patient groups

Yoga Group

Experimental group

Description:

Participants in the intervention group engaged in a 8-week yoga program delivered at their place of work (IT companies). Sessions were group-based, prescribed three sessions per week during break time (30-mins).

Treatment:

Other: Yoga@work

Wait-list Group

No Intervention group

Description:

Participants in Wait-List control were not given any intervention. 8-weeks, group followed usual break time.