Immobilization and Disuse Syndrome

Abstract

Understanding the societal and personal impact of immobilization or disuse syndrome is important in Japan with its large elderly population. The indication of disuse syndrome for rehabilitation was narrowed and the fee for disuse syndrome was set at a low level. Muscle strength decreases at a rate of 2.3 per day in 40 of the people. Also, the muscle fractional synthetic rate decreased with 10 days rest. Other functional or morphological changes also occur in the neuromuscular junction and the muscle internal structure.