Physical Activity Interventions To Heal Chronic Low Back Pain

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Conditions studied: Chronic Low Back Pain

In brief

This study will advance understanding on the mechanisms that mediate improved outcomes for chronic low back pain and provide specific directions for optimizing physical activity interventions for this population.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT04678297

Run by

University of Connecticut

People needed

204

Starts

2020-10-01

Expected to finish

2025-06-30

Last updated by the study team

2026-06-23

Who can join

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

You may qualify if…

• Age > 18;
• Report of low back pain >3 of last 6 months;
• Willing to attend 12-weeks of yoga or stretching (twice per week);
• Willing to complete 4 assessments;
• English Literacy;
• No changes in pain treatments in the past month;
• Willing to not change pain treatments during study unless medically necessary;
• Have not practiced yoga > 2x in the last 12 months;

You may not qualify if…

• back surgery within the last 1 year;
• back pain due to specific systemic problem (e.g., lupus);
• lower extremity weakness (motor strength 4/5 of the quads, gluts, hamstrings, EHL);
• sciatica or (+) straight leg raise (SLR);
• coexisting chronic pain problem (migraine headaches, fibromyalgia);
• Serious or unstable psychiatric illness (e.g. psychosis, mania, history of suicide attempt);
• major coexisting medical illness (e.g., cancer, COPD, morbid obesity);
• Positive Romberg test (with or without sensory neuropathy).

Where it is running

• University of Connecticut — Storrs Mansfield, Connecticut, United States

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