bed rest

Abstract: Patients with long COVID and myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) suffer from a reduced exercise capacity, skeletal muscle abnormalities and post-exertional malaise (PEM), where symptoms worsen with cognitive or physical exertion. PEM often results in avoidance...

Daily blood flow restriction does not affect muscle fiber capillarization and satellite cell content during two weeks of bed rest in healthy young men Thorben Aussieker; Cas J. Fuchs; Antoine Zorenc; Lex B. Verdijk; Luc J.C. van Loon; Tim Snijders The present study assessed whether single-leg...

Just wrote a blog about what deconditioning looks like and how it differs from ME/CFS. https://mecfsskeptic.com/what-does-deconditioning-look-like/ Interestingly the best evidence on deconditioning comes from NASA bed rest studies. Head-down bed rest was used as a proxy for the low gravity...