Feasibility of Teleyoga for Treatment of Lyme Disease

Stanford University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Lyme Disease

Treatments: Behavioral: Teleyoga

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04867473

49667

Details and patient eligibility

About

Primary Aims: Modify an existing teleyoga intervention to use with Lyme disease (LD) patients and address the technical challenges of at-home teleyoga

Full description

Participants with symptoms of Lyme disease (n=15) will participate individually in a weekly tele-yoga class using an iPad loaned by the study. Participants will choose where to attend these remote treatment sessions. Yoga treatment will last 12 weeks. Participants' subjective pain will be rated at baseline and end-of-treatment using a standard pain scale. Also assessed will be participant adherence to study protocol by tracking treatment attendance

Enrollment: 15 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Diagnosis of probable Lyme disease
• Has not begun new pain medications or other treatments in the last month
• English literacy
• Wireless internet connection at home

Exclusion criteria

• Participation in another concurrent clinical trial
• Back surgery within the last 12 months
• Unstable, coexisting mental illness or psychiatric condition
• Active, current suicidal intent or plan
• Attended or practiced yoga ≥ 1 x in the past 12 months

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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15 participants in 1 patient group

Teleyoga

Experimental group

Description:

Lyme disease participants will attend home-based yoga sessions using HIPAA-compliant telehealth software and devices and complete pain inventory questionnaires pre and post-treatment

Treatment:

Behavioral: Teleyoga