Status:
COMPLETED
Yoga for Patients With Epilepsy
Lead Sponsor:
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Conditions:
Epilepsy
Eligibility:
FEMALE
18-64 years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
To establish the safety and feasibility of having patients with epilepsy perform yoga.
Detailed Description
Subjects will keep logs of seizure frequency prior to, during, and following training in a yoga regimen. Instruction in the yoga regimen will occur at BIDMC, and home practice following classroom inst...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Must be able to give full informed consent.
- Must have one or more of the following seizure types: simple partial, complex partial, or secondarily generalized.
- Age 18-64.
- Must have 4-20 during the baseline phase.
- Must have medical clearance from their primary care giver sufficient to allow for participation in yoga exercises.
- Must be stable enough to allow for all anticonvulsant levels to remain constant for the duration of the study.
Exclusion
- Having primary generalized epilepsy or atonic seizures.
- Having a history of status epilepticus in the past two years.
- Any medical problem that would preclude participation in a yoga class.
- Nonepileptic or psychogenic seizures.
- Pregnancy.
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
October 1 2003
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
October 1 2008
Estimated Enrollment :
20 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT00179452
Start Date
October 1 2003
End Date
October 1 2008
Last Update
March 13 2017
Active Locations (1)
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Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02215