Health status measures evaluate functioning in one or multiple specific domains such as physical functioning, mental health, role functioning, and pain.
The aim of this study was to evaluate functioning, in particular walking capacity, lower-extremity performance, and mobility and balance, one-year after the completion of a physical exercise programme.
However, still to date, to the best of the authors' knowledge, there is no study that has shown the test-retest reproducibility of the ICF as a scale to evaluate functioning in a specific population.
Resting-state fMRI is a promising imaging technique to evaluate functions in the human brain in health and disease.
EQ-5D is a generic instrument evaluating function in five dimensions (mobility, self-care, usual activities, pain/discomfort and anxiety/depression) [ 16, 29].
FAOS has been developed from the self-reported questionnaire KOOS aimed at evaluating function in subjects with osteoarthritis in the knee, and the questions are adjusted and relevant to those patients.
Additionally, the KOOS includes subscales that can evaluate function in activities of daily living and during more rigorous activity, allowing it to be sensitive to differences in activity between individuals.
Among other problems we found ceiling effects in many items, and we concluded that KOOS is insufficient as a tool to evaluate function in ACL reconstructed patients 20 weeks after operation.
Regarding shoulder instability, the WOSI is the most thoroughly studied PROM to evaluate shoulder functioning in patients with shoulder instability.
This reflects the necessity to evaluate adolescent functioning in multiple areas, because it is possible to master certain areas while having difficulties in others.
