Corcoran P J
Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts.
West J Med. 1991 May;154(5):536-8.
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.
专业经验和常识告诉我们运动的益处以及懒惰的危害。然而，“生病或康复期间卧床休息有益健康” 这一谬论依然存在。过去50年里大量的科学证据表明，缺乏运动对身体各个器官系统造成了特定损害。衰老和缺乏运动都会导致极为相似的机能衰退。我总结了来自军事医院、退伍军人医院、康复经验、航空航天研究以及老年学的数据，并回顾了衰老和缺乏运动所带来的生理和代谢变化，以及有助于预防卧床休息带来的医源性并发症的策略。
