Sentence examples for physical immobility from inspiring English sources

Bauby was submerged in a diving bell of physical immobility: that precious, fluttering eyelid was a butterfly of freedom and hope.

But the devices were far less reliable in tracking the energy costs of light-intensity activities like standing or cleaning, often misinterpreting them as physical immobility.

Deep-vein thrombosis, caused by physical immobility that can create a potentially fatal blood clot, is sometimes referred to as "economy class syndrome" when applied to air travel, an allusion to tight seating in economy class.

German-language transport research has not yet explicitly dealt with this group, instead looking, in small-scale studies, at the transport usage of the elderly in socially disadvantaged areas [15, 32], or at the impact that physical immobility has on trip patterns [16, 38].

But physical immobility need not be an inevitable aspect of aging.

Taylor describes the struggle of the lead character, Zoey, as someone who must deal with the evil characteristics she was born with -- a telling parallel that he admits in part relates to the comic's own physical immobility struggles from which he was born with -- Arthrogryposis, a birth defect that debilitates the arms and legs.

This is perhaps because the combination of physical disability, immobility, communication and cognitive problems (Litvan et al., 1996 a ; Bak and Hodges, 1998; Schrag et al., 2003), which were all observed in our patients, reduces the expression of socially inappropriate behaviours resulting from poor social cognition.

The 3-arm randomized COllaborative Care to Preserve PErformance in Cancer (COPE) Trial compared: 1) enhanced usual care, 2) rehabilitation services targeting physical impairments and immobility via the TCM-RS, and 3) TCM-RS plus conventional TCM pain management TCM-RS + Pain.

For daphnia testing, nanoparticles that undergo agglomeration/aggregation and sedimentation or visibly adhere to the exterior of the daphnia are likely to induce physical effects causing immobility and/or death.

In addition to Frida Kahlo, whose self-as-subject was intensely motivated by her own physical injuries and immobility, the work of Cindy Sherman has long complicated the intersection of the personal and public by depicting herself as different women in various social and professional roles.

Important risk factors as physical condition and immobility were rarely assessed.