Yoga for Military Veterans with Chronic Low Back Pain: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Chronic low back pain (cLBP) is prevalent, especially among military veterans. Many cLBP treatment options have limited benefits and are accompanied by side effects. Major efforts to reduce opioid use and embrace nonpharmacological pain treatments have resulted. Research with community cLBP patients indicates that yoga can improve health outcomes and has few side effects. The benefits of yoga among military veterans were examined.

Design

Participants were randomized to either yoga or delayed yoga treatment in 2013-2015. Outcomes were assessed at baseline, 6 weeks, 12 weeks, and 6 months. Intention-to-treat analyses occurred in 2016.

Setting/participants

One hundred and fifty military veterans with cLBP were recruited from a major Veterans Affairs Medical

SUBMITTER: Groessl EJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6399016 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature