La inmovilidad en el anciano

  1. P. Oliva Ruiz
  2. A. R. Arroyo Rodríguez-Navas
  3. L. Domínguez Táboas
  4. E. Rellán Ramos.
  5. R. Cubiella Muñoz
Journal:
Cuestiones de fisioterapia: revista universitaria de información e investigación en Fisioterapia

ISSN: 1135-8599

Year of publication: 1999

Volume: 11

Issue: 11

Pages: 71-86

Type: Article

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Abstract

The immobility is one of the greater problems of the oldness; it is consequence and cause of diseases and produces multiple physiological changes and complications. The oldness is not a disease, even though certain number of elders develop invalitys on account of chronic processes originated by the obsolescence. The obsolescence supposes a dynamical process that it is begun in the same moment in which we born and that it is developed throughout our lile. This work is a study on the different alterations that they can be produced in an elder due to the immobilization (relative or permanent), with respect to their quality of lile. Because of this we consider timely to establish a series of measures that they can improve it.