Yoga for Patients With Epilepsy

Beth Israel Lahey Health

Status: Completed

Conditions: Epilepsy

Treatments: Behavioral: Yoga

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00179452

2003P000337

Details and patient eligibility

About

To establish the safety and feasibility of having patients with epilepsy perform yoga.

Full description

Subjects will keep logs of seizure frequency prior to, during, and following training in a yoga regimen. Instruction in the yoga regimen will occur at BIDMC, and home practice following classroom instruction will occur as part of the study. Side effects, changes in seizure frequency, and quality of life assessments will be performed.

Enrollment: 20 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 64 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. Must be able to give full informed consent.
2. Must have one or more of the following seizure types: simple partial, complex partial, or secondarily generalized.
3. Age 18-64.
4. Must have 4-20 during the baseline phase.
5. Must have medical clearance from their primary care giver sufficient to allow for participation in yoga exercises.
6. Must be stable enough to allow for all anticonvulsant levels to remain constant for the duration of the study.

Exclusion criteria

1. Having primary generalized epilepsy or atonic seizures.
2. Having a history of status epilepticus in the past two years.
3. Any medical problem that would preclude participation in a yoga class.
4. Nonepileptic or psychogenic seizures.
5. Pregnancy.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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20 participants in 1 patient group

Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Subjects invited to participate in yoga practice.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Yoga