The Effect of Yoga Practice on Chronic Back Pain

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Conditions studied: Chronic Back Pain

In brief

Chronic low back pain is notoriously difficult to treat and is a primary contributor to lost work days and excessive health expenditures, and whose treatment has, in part, contributed to the opioid crisis. Surgery is only an option in a minority of these patients, usually confined to those with structural instability. Yoga is an ancient modality whose benefits are currently being studied.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT04270617

Run by

NYU Langone Health

People needed

200

Starts

2019-12-01

Expected to finish

2028-01-01

Last updated by the study team

2026-06-04

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Willingness to and ability to participate in study procedures
• Chronic back pain (pain above the gluteal cleft of at least 3 months duration)

You may not qualify if…

• Indication for surgery (i.e., fracture, infection, scoliosis, spondylolisthesis)
• Cardiac, pulmonary or other medical comorbidities that preclude participation in yoga practice

Where it is running

• NYULangone — New York, New York, United States (enrolling)

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