We have excluded from the total number of admissions seven individuals with a primary learning disability or developmental disorder, including autism, as well as 44 admissions of under 10-year-olds and 70 out of area admissions.
Particular emphasis was put on manual therapy and psychological treatment, given their availability in the neurorehabilitative setting, to endorse their use in pain treatment even in those attendant conditions unrelated to the primary disability undergoing rehabilitation.
The three primary disability coalitions CHADD participates in, believe there are significant key provisions warranting support of the legislation.
Cutoff values were used for primary disability and pain outcomes as previously described.
The chronicity of oral diseases such as dental caries and periodontal diseases complicates the primary disability [ 3].
In an earlier analysis, we used principal component factor analysis to extract the underlying latent variable from three primary disability scales [ 10].
Global functional performance at baseline also had a stronger correlation with follow-up physical disability than did the baseline number of tender, swollen, or deformed joints, or the baseline primary disability scales, MHAQ, SF36 PF, or Steinbrocker class.
For instance, cognitive impairment, associated with abnormal hippocampal and PFC function, is a primary cause of disability in schizophrenia, but it also emerges in depression [ 3, 4].
Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common form of arthritis and a primary cause of disability, however, there are no treatments that can slow disease progression or repair damaged joint cartilage.
FM often substantially hampers day-to-day functioning and is a primary cause of disability [ 5].
