The main purpose of this study was to evaluate whether a well-structured rehabilitation programme might add benefit to customary treatment after surgery for cervical disc disease, with respect to function, disability, work capability, and cost effectiveness.
The main purpose of this study was to evaluate whether a well-structured rehabilitation programme might add benefit to the customary post-surgical treatment for cervical disc disease, with respect to function, disability, work capability, and cost effectiveness.
45 Also, in the cohort used in this study, immobilisation, 'act-as usual' (participants received information about whiplash injuries and the importance of staying active despite symptoms) and mobilisation had similar effects regarding prevention of pain, disability and capability to work at 12 months follow-up.
Finally, in this context, construct validity refers to the extent to which a frailty measure correlates with factors that are, based on the extant literature, known to have an association (e.g. age, comorbidity, disability, physical capabilities or performances) [ 27, 28].
Control systems for wheelchairs have to accommodate a wide variety of disabilities and capabilities; some people can use a joystick, others are restricted to blowing in a tube in different ways to signify left, right, accelerate, and so on.
The consequences of these impairments are operationalized through the presence of disabilities in capabilities (e.g., intellectual, language, behaviour, sense and perception, motricity and balance).
The patients' quality of life can be strongly impaired by pain, disability and reduced capability in the daily routine, and the available health care services in Germany do not sufficiently satisfy the patients' demands [ 19, 20].
In the modern Western world, with the rise of technology and human capabilities, disability has the power to enhance the diversity of one of man's greatest, most simple contributions to betterment of this world: perspective.
Larger functional severity scores indicated more severe functional disability, and larger functional capability scores meant better functional levels.
What little research exists on addressing maternity issues among disabled mothers generally focuses on their disability rather than their reproductive capability [ 17].
And regarding everyone else, [I want them to] recognise my disability and emphasise my capabilities.
