The Effects of Video-based Yoga Interventions for Patients With Post-corona Virus Disease

Istinye University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Post-COVID-19

Treatments: Behavioral: Video-based Yoga Exercises

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05374668

Yoga COVID-19

Details and patient eligibility

About

Aimed to understand if yoga exercises are superior to posture exercises as an alternative exercise therapy for relieving musculoskeletal pain, improving functional status, and improving quality of life during the post- corona virus disease (COVID-19) period?

Full description

Eighty five of 200 post- COVID-19 patients, who met the inclusion/exclusion criteria obtained from the records of the State Hospital. The participants were divided into video-based (VB) yoga (n=40), home-based (HB) posture exercise (n=28), and control (n=17) groups. The socio-demographic characteristics, pain status, walking and balance, and quality of life were evaluated twice, once before and eight weeks after the exercises.

Enrollment: 85 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• recently diagnosed with Covid-19 and discharged from the hospital;
• being at level 0: neglected functional limitation or level 1: negligible functional limitation on the Post-Covid-19 Functional Status Scale,
• referred for physical therapy for musculoskeletal pain.

Exclusion criteria

• having any type of surgery in the last six months,
• being pregnant,
• being level 2 or above on the Post-Covid-19 Functional Status Scale

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Sequential Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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85 participants in 2 patient groups

Video-based Yoga

Experimental group

Description:

video-based yoga (n=40) given for patients in post-covid-19 status for 8 weeks

Treatment:

Behavioral: Video-based Yoga Exercises

Home-based postur exercises

Experimental group

Description:

Home exzercises were given for 8 weeks

Treatment:

Behavioral: Video-based Yoga Exercises