Effectiveness of Iyengar yoga in treating spinal (back and neck) pain: A systematic review.

Considerable amount of money spent in health care is used for treatments of lifestyle related, chronic health conditions, which come from behaviors that contribute to morbidity and mortality of the population. Back and neck pain are two of the most common musculoskeletal problems in modern society that have significant cost in health care. Yoga, as a branch of complementary alternative medicine, has emerged and is showing to be an effective treatment against nonspecific spinal pain.

A pragmatic multicentered randomized controlled trial of yoga for chronic low back pain: economic evaluation.

Study Design: Multicentered randomized controlled trial with quality of life and resource use data collected.

Objective: The objective of this study was to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of yoga intervention plus usual care compared with usual care alone for chronic or recurrent low back pain.

Summary Of Background Data: Yoga has been shown as an effective intervention for treating chronic or recurrent low back pain.

Yoga for chronic low back pain: a randomized trial.

Background: Previous studies indicate that yoga may be an effective treatment for chronic or recurrent low back pain.

Objective: To compare the effectiveness of yoga and usual care for chronic or recurrent low back pain.

Design: Parallel-group, randomized, controlled trial using computer-generated randomization conducted from April 2007 to March 2010.

A randomised controlled trial of yoga for the treatment of chronic low back pain: results of a pilot study.

Objective: To conduct a pilot trial of yoga for the treatment of chronic low back pain (LBP) to inform the feasibility and practicality of conducting a full-scale trial in the UK; and to assess the efficacy of yoga for the treatment of chronic low back pain.

Design: A pragmatic randomised controlled trial was undertaken comparing yoga to usual care.

Participants: Twenty participants who had presented to their GP with chronic low back pain in the previous 18 months were recruited via GP records from one practice in York, UK.

A pragmatic multi-centred randomised controlled trial of yoga for chronic low back pain: trial protocol.

Unlabelled: A systematic review revealed three small randomised controlled trials of yoga for low back pain, all of which showed effects on back pain that favoured the yoga group. To build on these studies a larger trial, with longer term follow-up, and a number of different yoga teachers delivering the intervention is required. This study protocol describes the details of a randomised controlled trial (RCT) to determine the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of Yoga for chronic Low Back Pain, which is funded by Arthritis Research Campaign (arc) and is being conducted by the University of York.