A bedridden patient is a patient that, for some reason, as to stay in bed for
a long period of time. Such patient might quickly develop serious
complications that are not directly linked with the reason why he has to
stay in bed. Some of those complications might be life threatening, most of
them might be disabling (leading to a disability even if the first problem
wouldn’t have lead to disability), and all of them will make the treatment
more difficult (the patient will need more time to recover –because the
complications will also have to be addressed during the treatment- and/or
he might not recover as well as he would have without complications).
Most of those complications can be very easily prevented using simple exercises and teaching the patient or the
caretaker. Therefore, adapted exercises have to be done to prevent the complications from appearing