Yoga for Patients With Epilepsy

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Conditions studied: Epilepsy

In brief

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

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00179452

Run by

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

People needed

20

Starts

2003-10-01

Expected to finish

2008-10-01

Last updated by the study team

2017-03-13

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 64. Sex: female. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

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

You may not qualify if…

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

Where it is running

• Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center — Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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