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      Early intensive care unit mobility therapy in the treatment of acute respiratory failure.

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          Immobilization and subsequent weakness are consequences of critical illness. Despite the theoretical advantages of physical therapy to address this problem, it has not been shown that physical therapy initiated in the intensive care unit offers benefit.

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          Journal
          Crit Care Med
          Critical care medicine
          Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
          1530-0293
          0090-3493
          Aug 2008
          : 36
          : 8
          Affiliations
          [1 ] Section on Pulmonary, Critical Care, Allergy and Immunologic Diseases, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston Salem, NC, USA. pemorris@wfubmc.edu
          Article
          10.1097/CCM.0b013e318180b90e
          18596631
          6d213122-5c67-4487-81c5-add603d62c38
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