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Underrated OPERATION BEDREST In an effort to study the effects of weightlessness on the body, France's National Space Studies Center has recruited 14 volunteers to lie supine for four months. Each will be paid $10,400 for their inaction...
Nothing a little chicken soup and bedrest wouldn't cure...
...prime concern of the experimenters was the effect of weightlessness on the circulatory system, particularly the tendency of the heart to grow "lazy" in space. Thus after bedrest, which is intended to simulate zero gravity, the adaptability of the nurses' circulatory system was tested by placing a bag tightly around the lower body and pumping the air out. This created a partial vacuum, which tends to concentrate the blood in the lower part of the body and to create the effects of gravity on astronauts who have just returned to earth. The bed rest was also followed by placing...
...dangerous are eleven other bedrest disorders mentioned at the meeting, e.g., kidney stones, habitual constipation, prostate trouble, bed sores, muscle spasm. The only patients for whom the assembled doctors thought that absolute bed rest might be allowable were: 1) the victims of a few such diseases as pulmonary tuberculosis, and 2) children, to whom it does little harm...
...Army Is Right. Dr. Dock urged a return to the nursing customs of Florence Nightingale's day when all but prostrated patients got up for meals, bathroom going, etc. There is evidence that bedrest deaths have gone up since nursing became so expert that a patient never needs to move. He had many good words to say for the Army's convalescent program (TIME, Nov. 15), which makes men move uninjured parts of their bodies as soon as they can, and normally gets head injuries out of bed in a matter of days...