Youth with LD comprise 47.4% of students in special education [ 12] and exhibit significant discrepancies between their intellectual abilities and their academic achievements which often results in poor functioning in academic environments [ 13].
29– 31 Moreover, FS results in poorer functioning in biopsychosocial areas, translating into a poorer response to both physical and mental stressors.
Antipsychotic polypharmacy and high dose prescribing could also be associated with poorer outcome due to an increased likelihood of side effects resulting in poorer functioning.
They suggest that the difference between the study results is because of disruption to women's lives from delivery of continuation therapy that was reflected in poorer role functioning, financial worries, attitudes to disease to treatment, hormonal symptoms and rash.
This may be a factor in prolonged poor function in some patients after this common operation.
This survey demonstrates that physiotherapy practice in the UK rarely includes progressive resistance exercise; and this may be a factor in prolonged poor function in some patients.
There is evidence of prolonged poor function in patients following total hip replacement (THR).
The presence of structural changes in radiographs correlates with poor function, and is associated with irreversibility of changes.
Every effort should be made to optimise physical capability in later life since poor function is not inevitable.
