Based on patients' limited functional activity, prehabilitation techniques have to be particularly designed to allow regular adherence.
However, many experts favour a more functional definition based on patient's functional health status or comorbidities.
There is a growing opinion that outcome would be improved by a more patient-related rather than a strictly diagnosis-related approach; that is, treatment should be based on patient age, functional demand, and individual risk profile [3].
Training took place 3 hours/day for 10 consecutive days and included (for 18 patients) language exercises with increasing levels of difficulty [ 25] or (for 10 patients) model-based intervention (training based on the patients' functional deficit, with the main aim of gradually improving spoken word production).
Our classification of functional impairment was based on patients' reports of need for assistance when toileting.
To describe data of short- and midterm results of hip arthroscopy patients based on patient-reported hip function, hip functional performance and return to sports activities.
The leg length measurement based on patient files or the functional follow-up assessment showed an average difference of −0.3 (±0.9 SD) cm (median 0.0; range −1.5 to 1.0) between the prosthesis leg and the healthy contralateral side.
The Barthel Index [ 19] measures disability or functional status based on patient or proxy completion of ten items related to activities of daily living (ADL): feeding, dressing, grooming, bathing, toilet use, transfer, stairs, mobility, bladder, and bowels.
Second, functional impairment was assessed based on patient-reported data of patients that had not yet achieved remission status, and not through direct observation of patient behavior and functioning.
Identification of these patients pre-operatively based on patient and/or surgical criteria or by formal dynamic testing of functional capacity is desirable and possible.
