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ArticleWorld journal of gastroenterology2024

Unresolved conundrum of the role of physical activity in inflammatory bowel disease: What next?

Nilakantan Ananthakrishnan

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Article in World journal of gastroenterology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Nilakantan AnanthakrishnanDepartment of Surgery, Sri Balaji Vidyapeeth, Pondicherry 607402, India. n.ananthk@gmail.com.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

There is considerable controversy on the role of physical activity in irritable bowel disease (IBD) since published reports are conflicting. It is well known that there is known relapse with specific treatment in IBD. This, in addition to onset of extraintestinal symptoms creates a need to think of alternate approaches. In this context, the current article describes the need of a multi-institutional study with standard protocol of physical activity for documenting its effect on both the primary disease and the extra alimentary manifestations. This paper also points out the possibility of using adjuvant complementary medicine such as yoga, whose effects have been documented in other diseases like irritable bowel syndrome. A third approach could be to focus on the intestinal dysbiosis in IBD and concentrate on research on restoring the microbial flora to normal, to see whether the extra-intestinal symptoms are alleviated.

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DysbiosisExerciseGastrointestinal MicrobiomeInflammatory Bowel DiseasesYogaExercise TherapyHumansIrritable Bowel SyndromeMulticenter Studies as TopicTreatment OutcomeComplementary medicine in inflammatory bowel diseasesDysbiosis in inflammatory bowel diseasesExtra intestinal symptoms of inflammatory bowel diseasesManagementPhysical activity in inflammatory bowel diseasesYoga in inflammatory bowel diseases

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