Patient Education Improves Pain and Health-Related Quality of Life in Patients with Established Spinal Osteoporosis in Primary Care-A Pilot Study of Short- and Long-Term Effects.

Fragility fractures, in particular vertebral fractures, are associated with high morbidity, including chronic pain and reduced health-related quality of life. We aimed to investigate the short- and long-term effects of patient education, including interdisciplinary themes, with or without physical training or mindfulness/medical yoga for patients with established spinal osteoporosis in primary care. Osteoporotic persons aged sixty years or older with one or more vertebral fractures were randomized to theory only, theory and physical exercise, or theory and mindfulness/medical yoga and were scheduled to once a week for ten weeks.

Mindfulness and Modified Medical Yoga as Intervention in Older Women with Osteoporotic Vertebral Fracture.

People with osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures (VCFs) have decreased health-related quality of life (HRQoL). Yoga and mindfulness are methods that can promote well-being. The aim of this article was to explore the effect of mindfulness and modified medical yoga on HRQoL, stress, sleep, and pain in people 60 years or older with a diagnosed osteoporotic VCF.