Yoga Practice Predicts Improvements in Day-to-Day Pain in Women With Metastatic Breast Cancer.

ABSTRACT:

Context

Women with metastatic breast cancer (MBC) experience a significant symptom burden, including cancer pain. Yoga is a mind-body discipline that has shown promise for alleviating cancer pain, but few studies have included patients with metastatic disease or examined the acute effects of yoga practice.

Objectives

To determine whether daily pain changed significantly during a randomized controlled trial of the Mindful Yoga program among women with MBC and whether time spent in yoga practice was related to daily pain.

Methods

On alternate weeks during the intervention period, we collected daily measures of pain from a subset of 48 women randomized to either yoga (n = 30) or a support group condition (n = 18). We also assessed daily duration of yoga practice among pa

SUBMITTER: Carson JW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8044267 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature