2007年10月29日 星期一

Use it or lose it

之前老師很喜歡提的一句話
很值得思考一下

Use it or lose it--the hazards of bed rest and inactivity.Corcoran PJ.
Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Tufts University School of
Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts.
Professional experience and lay wisdom teach us the benefits of exercise
and the hazards of idleness. Yet the myth persists that "bed rest is
good for you" when ill or convalescing. Abundant scientific evidence in
the past 50 years has demonstrated the specific damage done to each of
the body's organ systems by inactivity. Both aging and inactivity lead
to strikingly similar kinds of deterioration. I summarize the data from
military and veterans' hospitals, rehabilitation experience, aerospace
research, and gerontology and review the physiologic and metabolic
changes of aging and inactivity, along with strategies to help prevent
the iatrogenic complications of bed rest.

[Inactivity and immobilization][Article in German]
Preisinger E.
Universitätsklinik für Physikalische Medizin und Rehabilitation, Wien.
Bed rest and immobilization of joints are amongst the most frequently
prescribed therapies. However, inactivity, elimination of gravity and
immobilization lead to multiple physiological changes. Well known are
effects on the cardiovascular, the cardiorespiratory, the metabolic and
the endocrinologic systems, the psyche, the bone and muscle tissue.
Early mobilization and measures to support mobility in chronic cases are
of major importance in avoiding structural damage.
PMID: 8128825 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]