Rage Against the Pain to Address Chronic Low Back Pain Among Veterans

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Conditions studied: Chronic Low Back Pain

In brief

Chronic low back pain is a leading cause of disability among Veterans. Yoga is recommended as a front-line treatment option for chronic low back pain and is available across the VA healthcare system; however, despite yoga being the most widely adopted of VHA's Complementary and Integrative Health (CIH) therapies, Veteran participation in yoga still remains limited. Although it can be effective in managing pain, individuals cannot reap the benefits of yoga if they are unwilling to adopt it. One potential barrier to adoption of yoga among Veterans may be their perceptions of yoga, which for some, encompass long-held but perhaps inaccurate beliefs of what the practice entails and how their participation will be viewed by others. The goal of this study was to develop and evaluate an alternative-to-yoga program intended to improve Veteran participation and by extension, outcomes among Veterans with chronic low back pain. Based on Veteran input, we called this yoga program Rage Against the Pain (RAP) 'High Intensity Stretching'.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT05103475

Run by

VA Office of Research and Development

People needed

36

Starts

2022-08-15

Expected to finish

2023-10-31

Last updated by the study team

2024-09-05

Who can join

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

You may qualify if…

• Veterans will be eligible to participate in the study if they:
• currently receive primary care services at the Hines VA
• received a diagnosis associated with chronic low back pain in the previous 3 months

You may not qualify if…

• Veterans will be ineligible to participate in the study if any of the following are true for them:
• they currently regularly participate in yoga
• they regularly participated in yoga in the previous 6 months
• their back pain is a symptom of a specific treatable or underlying disease/condition(s), e.g.,
• ankylosing spondylitis
• active or recent malignancy
• fracture/spinal cord injury
• spinal infection)
• they are experiencing progressive neurological deficits
• they have any other condition which results in severe disability, e.g.,
• non-ambulatory
• hemiparesis
• severe cognitive deficits
• they have a diagnosis associated with psychosis
• they are currently experiencing issues around substance abuse (not including prescription opioids), as identified through ICD-10 codes associated with 'mental and behavioral disorders due to psychoactive substance use' recorded in the patient's medical record in the previous 3 months
• they do not plan to be living in the Chicagoland area for the duration of the study
• they are pregnant at the time of screening

Where it is running

• Edward Hines Jr. VA Hospital, Hines, IL — Hines, Illinois, United States

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