The Effects of Yoga on Patients With Rotator Cuff Injuries

Lawson Health Research Institute

Status: Completed

Conditions: Rotator Cuff Injuries

Treatments: Procedure: yoga; Procedure: standard exercises

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02528084

HSREB2015

Details and patient eligibility

About

To determine if patients who undergo a 6-week online yoga exercise treatment differ from those who undergo a 6-week online standard exercise intervention and patients who do not undergo any treatment (the control).

Full description

Patients awaiting rotator cuff surgery spend months waiting for a doctor's consultation and even longer for surgery. The proposed study is to see if there is a difference between three groups: patients who follow an online yoga video, patients who follow an online standard exercises video and patients who do not undergo either treatment (control).

Enrollment: 10 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 70 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• minimum 18 years old
• rotator cuff injury
• access to YouTube

Exclusion criteria

• under 18 years of age
• patient has past yoga experience
• patient will/has undergone any surgery other than rotator cuff

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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10 participants in 3 patient groups

yoga intervention

Experimental group

Description:

patients in the group are asked to follow an online video instructing them various yoga poses. Patients in this group are asked to do the yoga exercises 2-3 times a week, for a total of 6 weeks.

Treatment:

Procedure: yoga

standard exercises intervention

Experimental group

Description:

patients in this group are asked to follow an online standard exercises video. Patients in this group are asked to follow specific exercises 2-3 times a day, for a total of 6 weeks.

Treatment:

Procedure: standard exercises

control

No Intervention group

Description:

patients in this group carry forth with their daily activities. They are not asked to follow the online yoga video or the online standard exercise video.