'functional difficulties' is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe problems, limitations, or issues related to a person's ability to perform certain physical or mental tasks. For example, "The patient had been dealing with functional difficulties since suffering a stroke two years ago."
Other assessment instruments have demonstrated similar gender related differences in function among the elderly, with women consistently reporting greater functional difficulties than men [ 36].
These examples are not actual functional difficulties, yet seem to influence the way respondents self-identify themselves to have LTID.
Although there remains an obvious difference in calf size (Figs. 4, 5), there are no functional difficulties.
Observations of each LTID groups were combined to indicate co-existence of chronic conditions, functional difficulties and learning difficulties.
Comorbidity can increase the odds up to three fold when adolescents reported to have chronic conditions, learning and functional difficulties.
To investigate concurrent validity of the Functional Difficulties Questionnaire (FDQ-9) using balance tasks on the SMARTwobbleboard.
Functional difficulties are determined as one of the reasons for the public health priority given to depression.
Understanding factors associated with patient activation in an older population with functional difficulties may inform care in this population.
Following from completion of CCSQ, three categories of health conditions were measured; chronic conditions, learning difficulties and functional difficulties (Table 1).
In line with the coding of the ICF (Selb et al. 2015), any items a-f with severities from 3 to 5 were grouped as functional difficulties.
This had left her with a 10-cm discrepancy between the lengths of the right and left humeri, resulting in significant functional difficulties.
