Clinical trialNCT00781729CompletedPhase 2Interventional

Yoga for Kyphosis Trial

SponsorEunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)Enrollment118Kyphosis

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Summary

The lay summary the sponsor registered on ClinicalTrials.gov.

This study seeks to determine whether a specially designed Hatha Yoga program can reduce hyperkyphosis in men and women who are at least 60 years of age and who have excessive thoracic kyphosis.

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Investigators

The overall officials registered on this study. Names that resolve to a FindMyKOL profile link to it; the rest are shown as registered.

Gail A Greendale, MD
University of California, Los Angeles
Principal Investigator
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Sites

1 registered facility, with the per-site recruitment status where the registry publishes one. ClinicalTrials.gov does not publish per-site enrollment counts.

United States

Ucla Division of Geriatrics
Los Angeles, California, United States

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Drugs studied

No drug or biological interventions are in our data for this study. It may test a procedure, device or behavioral intervention, or the intervention list isn't in our current snapshot. See the registry record ↗. Why? →

Registration & key dates

Registry attributes as recorded on the ClinicalTrials.gov study record.

Start: 30 Sept 2004
Primary completion: 30 Sept 2006
Completion: 30 Sept 2006
Last update posted: 29 Oct 2008
Registered enrollment: 118
Registry id: NCT00781729

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Source: ClinicalTrials.gov, via the CTTI AACT database, data as of 4 Nov 2026. Registry facts are shown as registered by the study sponsor; FindMyKOL does not interpret them.