Sentence examples for confinement to bed from inspiring English sources

This occurs most frequently in the leg veins and may be due to slowing of the blood flow during a prolonged surgical procedure or confinement to bed.

The risk of venous stasis increases with age (due to decreased motor activity), obesity, immobilization (transitory or permanent) or confinement to bed for several days, trauma, application of plaster casts, and varicose veins.

Such a remodeling is also described in the somatosensory cortex of adult rats submitted to hindlimb unloading (HU) [2], [3], a situation commonly used in rats to mimic the effects of confinement to bed in patients, or even space-flight.

These pathologies included older age, confinement to bed, or concomitant Parkinson's disease.

*Scale ranges from 0 to 5, where 0 = no limitations and 5 = confinement to bed and requiring constant help.

Some high-risk ante partum patients and their families have to adapt to long hospital stay and confinement to bed.

Emmanuel is suffering from Pott's disease tuberculosis of the spine and the director of the film, Radu Jude, shows his treatment unsparingly (long needles to drain an abscess, a full-body cast, confinement to a bed where he must even eat lying flat on his back).

Older people are suffering "disgraceful" home care, including missed medication and confinement to soiled beds, an undercover investigation has revealed.

Disease progression is broken down to seven stages (including 1.5 and 2.5 in the modified version of the system) ranging from mild unilateral involvement (1.0) to confinement to wheelchair or bed (5.0).

Too bad, because assisted living, which caught on in the 1980s, is a good idea for elderly people who aren't ready for confinement to a nursing home bed.

A cluster of symptoms were associated with flu, including fatigue as the main symptom, ranging from tiredness to exhaustion, and from lack of energy to immobilization, and to bed confinement.