Sentence examples for weaker patients from inspiring English sources

A brace may inhibit knee flexion strength of stronger patients, yet result in no change or even improvements in strength of weaker patients.

Dr Catherine Hoolihan, of Save the Children, who is currently working at a treatment centre in Sierra Leone, told the BBC: "Some weaker patients absolutely require intravenous fluids in order to support them, but it is a challenging thing to do.

This misclassification being worse for weaker patients, it may have a significant negative impact on the clinical decision making.

However, an intense regimen is more costly, less convenient and unsuitable for weaker patients who may not withstand the toxic challenge.

Muscles are believed to be relatively resistant to ischemia, but even shorter or sudden periods of ischemia may result in an overload of calcium in the muscle and could in weaker patients induce secondary complications such as compartment syndrome and respiratory distress syndrome [ 8, 13].

In our study, mean baseline 6MWD was already more than 400 meter, however it is anticipated that the average observed gain in 6MWD of 72 m due to exercise training, will have shifted a part of the weaker patients towards a 6MWD larger than 400 m and thus towards a more favorable prognosis.

Weak patients revealed PPF more frequently.

The scale was capable of measuring small distal movements, related to activities of daily living, even in the oldest and weakest patients.

This study validates a panel of upper limb muscle strength and function measures for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy which can be applied from controls to extremely weak patients.

It can be interpreted as a description of three groups of patients, first group is represented by the first phase that contains the weak patients, so the hazard rate of this group is increasing, while the second phase represents the group with strong patients, their bodies have became familiar with the disease and they are getting better.

The 105/227 (46%) weak patients not matchable to not-weak patients had even worse prognosis and higher costs.