Effects of WB-EMS in Ulcerative Colitis Patients

University of Erlangen-Nürnberg Medical School

Status: Withdrawn

Conditions: Ulcerative Colitis

Treatments: Other: active Whole Body Electromyostimulation; Other: Passive WB-EMS; Device: WB-EMS application

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02144129

Substudy 1 (Other Identifier)

EMS_COL

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of 12 weeks of WB-EMS either applicated passive in a supine resting position or active during slight movements compared with a non-training control group on body composition, muscle strength and QoL in patients with ulcerative colitis.

Our main hypothesis is that active WB-EMS application is significantly more favorable to address our primary endpoints compared with passive application.

Our secondary hypothesis is that passive WB-EMS application is significantly more favorable to address our primary endpoints compared with non-training control.

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• ulcerative colitis
• ambulatory subjects

Exclusion criteria

• variables that conflicts with WB-EMS application (e.g. cardiac pacemakers)
• absence of more than two weeks during the interventional period.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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0 participants in 3 patient groups

active WB-EMS

Experimental group

Description:

2 sessions/week with 20 min of active WB-EMS application

Treatment:

Device: WB-EMS application

Other: active Whole Body Electromyostimulation

Passive WB-EMS

Experimental group

Description:

2 sessions/week with 20 min of passive WB-EMS application in a resting supine position

Treatment:

Other: Passive WB-EMS

Inactive Control Group

No Intervention group

Description:

sedentary non-training control group