IBD: Exercise May Reduce Risk and Improve Symptoms

In managing their symptoms, many inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients feel the need to go beyond diet and medications. In fact, half of IBD patients turn to complementary or alternative remedies to alleviate their disease -- among these, exercise regimens that will alleviate their disease. Although exercise is emerging as having a range of benefits from primary prevention to the reduction of symptoms and relapse risk, it is not at the top of gastroenterologists' list of recommendations to patients. "I don't think most gastroenterologists routinely emphasize exercise to patients, but often patients are looking for something they can do other than medication to take control," Raymond K. Cross, MD, director of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Program at the University of Maryland Medical School in Baltimore, told MedPage Today. https://www.medpagetoday.com/reading-room/aga/lower-gi/72932?xid=nl_mpt_DHE_2018-05-18&eun=g721819d0r&pos=0&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Headlines%202018-05-18&utm_term=Daily%20Headlines%20-%20Active%20User%20-%20180%20days