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THE OSTEOPOROSIS OF IMMOBILISATION IN RECUMBENCY



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Abstract

While it is not denied that immobilisation of a diseased joint may be essential, there is a growing mass of evidence that immobilisation in recumbency of the whole patient has severe effects both in the neighbourhood of the actual lesion and upon the skeleton as a whole. Further search for measures to counteract the undesirable skeletal effects of recumbency is much needed.

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