Patients should therefore avoid other than short-term bed rest, as immobility increases bone loss.
Ghibelline aristocracy and immobility idealize the emperor.
Instead of managing the land by the constant repetition of the same processes, by a customary immobility of tenure and service, by communalistic restrictions on private enterprise and will, local society began to try improvements, to escape from the bounds of champion farming.
While agreeing with the Eleatics as to the eternal sameness of Being (nothing can arise out of nothing; nothing can be reduced to nothing), Democritus followed the physicists in denying its oneness and immobility.
Doctors have known for 60 years that prolonged immobility increases the risk of suffering a blood clot.