Vibration Exercise for Crohn's to Observe Response - Trial NCT06211400

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Primary Outcome

Inflammatory Bowel Disease Questionnaire (IBDQ)

Summary

Background: Crohn's disease (CD) is a long-term inflammatory condition of the digestive
 system. People with CD often have unpredictable and debilitating symptoms, including
 abdominal pain, diarrhoea and fatigue. In addition, they require long-term treatment with
 frequent negative effects and often need surgery and hospitalisations. Therefore, people with
 CD report a lower health-related quality of life (HRQOL) compared with other people. Doctors
 are constantly trying to find new treatments to improve HRQOL and control symptoms and
 vibration exercise could be a potential treatment.
 
 Exercise might be a simple, safe, and low-cost intervention for improving HRQOL in people
 with CD. This is because it has the potential to improve several aspects of physical, mental
 and social well-being simultaneously. Adults with CD have been shown to be less active than
 the general population and do not meet the recommended daily physical activity guidelines.
 One barrier to exercise is lack of time, however whole-body vibration exercise (where you
 stand and squat on a vibrating plate) can be done over a much shorter duration and at a lower
 intensity to gain potentially similar or at times greater benefits. More research is needed
 to understand the effects, both positive and negative of vibration exercise in people with
 CD.
 
 Aim: This study begins to understand whether undertaking a supervised 6-week vibration
 exercise programme for adults with mild to moderately active Crohn's disease improves HRQoL
 and other symptoms such as fatigue.

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