Back/joint pain, illness perceptions and coping are important predictors of quality of life and work productivity in patients with inflammatory bowel disease: a 12-month longitudinal study.

Background And Aims: Back and joint pain are the most common extraintestinal symptoms reported by patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). We assessed the impact of back/joint pain, illness perceptions, and coping on quality of life (QOL) and work productivity in patients with IBD.

Methods: Our cohort included 155 IBD patients with and 100 without arthropathy.

IBD and arthropathies: a practical approach to its diagnosis and management.

Arthropathies are a major clinical problem in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Often it is difficult to control the articular symptoms with the anti-inflammatory strategies used for IBD. Studies evaluating specific treatments aimed at articular manifestations in patients with IBD are rare.

The joint-gut axis in inflammatory bowel diseases.

Inflammatory bowel diseases, Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, are associated with a variety of extraintestinal manifestations. The most common extraintestinal manifestation, articular involvement, occurs in 16% to 33% of inflammatory bowel disease patients. These arthropathies may increase morbidity, resulting in a worse quality of life compared with inflammatory bowel disease patients without arthropathies.