Encyclopedia: Bed Rest
Bed rest is a doctor's prescription to spend a longer period of time in bed. Prolonged bed rest has long been known to have deleterious physiological effects, such as muscle atrophy and other forms of deconditioning. Besides lack of physical exercise in was shown that another important factor is that the hydrostatic pressure acts anomalously, resulting in altered distribution of body fluids. Even physical exercise in bed fails to address...