Medical Yoga for Patients With Stress-related Symptoms

Maria Larsson

Status: Completed

Conditions: Stress-related Illness/Anxiety

Treatments: Other: Medical Yoga; Other: Treatment as Usual (physical therapy)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02907138

VGFOUGSB-602221

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to compare the effect of Medical Yoga as a group treatment, to conventional treatment provided by a physical therapist, for people with perceived stress-related symptoms.

Forty people are to be randomized to either:

1. Intervention Group - Medical Yoga, group treatment for eight weeks, 60 minutes per week, with the guidance of a physical therapist.

   or

2. Control - treatment as usual (TAU) in physical therapy.

Enrollment: 45 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 100 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Perceived stress and anxiety, which could be expressed as for example as tension in the neck and shoulders, insomnia, anxiety and headaches.

Exclusion criteria

• Do not understand Swedish (as group instructions need to be understood),
• Pregnancy,
• Psychotic symptoms,
• Ongoing or physical therapy treatment the last three months,
• Previously participated in Medical Yoga group.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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45 participants in 2 patient groups

Medical Yoga

Experimental group

Description:

Medical Yoga Group therapy for eight weeks, 60 minutes per week, with the guidance of a physical therapist.

Treatment:

Other: Medical Yoga

Treatment as Usual (physical therapy)

Active Comparator group

Description:

Treatment as Usual provided by physical therapist

Treatment:

Other: Treatment as Usual (physical therapy)