Word: weightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...effects of stretching on the taste buds. If, as they suspect, such exercise enhances the sense of taste, that could be a great boon for the elderly. A common problem of aging is a lessening sense of taste, which makes eating less attractive and can lead to unwanted weight loss. More dangerously, the thirst sensation also appears to slacken. When seniors forget to drink, dehydration can set in without their being aware of it, inducing a drop in blood volume that causes a greater sensitivity to heat changes. The result can be as dramatic as the unexpected deaths among...
...muscle tone is doing because we work very hard on that. My legs are really getting strong, particularly the thigh and calf. The nurse will hold the leg straight up, holding the knee with one hand and the foot with the other and pushing with all his body weight. I can't feel anything in the right leg; I just stare at it. But I feel the tension in the left...
...standing position as possible. He is carried from his chair to a tilt table by two women nurses and a male trainer. He is placed on a surface that can be cranked up as high as he will go for his body to bear its own dead weight...
...noted neurosurgeon and teacher of neurosurgeons, John Jane, who would operate on Reeve himself. Before that, however, Reeve needed to be stabilized to prevent any more compression in the spine. He was placed on a bed with a kind of halo attached to his head and a heavy weight that kept him immobile. He was given morphine. Sometimes he would attempt to flail and would jerk his head from side to side, and more sedation would be necessary...
...remained in intensive care at U.Va. for a month. Then he went to the Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation in West Orange, New Jersey, where his therapy began. "I still had an infection in my lungs," he says. "I couldn't eat very much. I'd lost a lot of weight. I dropped from 215 to about 190. My hemoglobin, which should be around 13 or 14, was down to 9. My protein levels were low. I looked gaunt. I was too fragile for rehab...