Prenatal Yoga for Pregnancy Related Back Pain

Beth Israel Lahey Health

Status: Completed

Conditions: Pregnancy Related

Treatments: Behavioral: support group; Behavioral: yoga

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03651232

2014P000344

Details and patient eligibility

About

This is a pilot feasibility study investigating prenatal yoga for pregnancy related back pain.

Enrollment: 20 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 39 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• uncomplicated pregnancies starting at 12-26 weeks of gestation
• pregnant women with and without back pain who had no regular yoga practice.

Exclusion criteria

• significant back pathology
• pregnancy complications
• non-English speaking
• otherwise were not able to participate (eg. transportation, scheduling issues)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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20 participants in 2 patient groups

yoga

Experimental group

Description:

weekly prenatal yoga group class

Treatment:

Behavioral: yoga

support

Active Comparator group

Description:

weekly group support class

Treatment:

Behavioral: support group