Immobility
Immobility is a clinical finding in which a person is unable to move. This can occur due to injury or disease of the muscles, bones, or nerve cells (including in the brain or spine).
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A 29-year old asked:
How can I lose weight if I am currently immobile?
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A 51-year old asked:
How does immobility of the muscular and skeletal systems occur?
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A 27-year old asked:
If a child was kept immobile at a certain age could this have an effect on their motor functions down the road?
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A 33-year old male asked:
What is the definition or description of: Immobility?
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A 42-year old female asked:
Why has my bulging disc left me almost completely immobile?
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A 35-year old asked:
I need to know what's an arm injury that would leave the arm immobile?
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A 16-year old male asked about a 16-year old male:
The hard immobile residual node has not grown - been a week on my collarbone. What after 2-4 weeks it is still there with no change. What would i do?
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A 31-year old asked:
What is a good product to use for a stroke victim's leg immobility?
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A 59-year old female asked:
How important is rest and being immobile as much as possible for fractured tailbone ?
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A female asked:
What sharp pain when mobile and immobile in the left shoulder mean and what should I do?
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A male asked:
Hello sir.. i had seen immobile hard limp like palpation below my umbelicus.... is it cancer's symptom?
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A 36-year old asked:
Is novacaine what doctors give you when you get an epidural or any other procedure that you have to be immobile for?
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A 49-year old asked:
Why is foot swollen after 6 weeks immobile?
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A 30-year old asked:
Whether immobility will cause problems often depends on weight?
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A 36-year old asked:
Is it possible for joint immobility/stiffness to be alleviated by massage?
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A 42-year old asked:
What is the name of the type of pneumonia caused by immobility in hospital?
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A 39-year old asked:
How do people get so overweight to the point of morbid obesity or becoming immobile?
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A 71-year old asked:
How long does it take to get over the immobility side-effect of haldol (haloperidol)?
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A female asked:
My daughter 18 has a peppercorn size cyst. Pain less and immobile? It's in the arm pit left.
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A male asked:
If waking with both-arm numbness and immobility happened a lot, yet hasn't happened in ages, am I better?
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A 23-year old asked:
I have a very hard, painless, immobile lump 3 inches above both collarbones. My doctors don't know what it is and I am concerned. ?
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A 36-year old female asked:
I have a large painful knot under my arm. It is immobile, somewhat hardened and doesn't come to a head. Its extremely painful and been there for 4 wee?
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A 47-year old asked:
What product can treat a stroke victim's hand immobility?
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A female asked:
I have a solid, hard, immobile nodule on the back of my head, at the base of my skull cap. Thoughts? Concerns?
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A 67-year old male asked:
I broke an ankle so for several months I will be immobile. What is the likelihood I could develop arthritis on the break area?
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A 25-year old female asked:
Pain under my shoulder blade too.. i did a xray 2 months ago all came back normal..which could mean its more muscular..what should I do...its really bad..causing immobility?
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A 27-year old male asked:
After waking up, I experience temporary body immobility, detachment from surroundings, difficulty breathing, and the need to struggle for a few minutes. Its not sleep paralyses i think it beyond this.. as i dont feel or remember where am i?
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A 47-year old asked:
Could a torn rotator cuff cause an immobile index finger?
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A 23-year old asked:
How long is a person typically immobile after getting a double knee replacement?
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A 46-year old female asked:
Had braces removed a few weeks ago a few bottom teeth are mobile how long should it take for them to become immobile?
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