Most patients relate that they never return to their pre-morbid level of health [ 11, 12].
Baseline characteristics such as age, sex, pre-morbid level of work and shoulder dominance were recorded.
The National Adult Reading Test (NART) is a measure of pre-morbid level of intellectual functioning [ 45]. 1.
The majority of subjects met remission criteria while a minority reached their pre-morbid level of functioning, were regular with medication and with follow up at the hospital.
Pre-morbid level of functioning (whether the participant could climb a flight of stairs and walk 800 m in the three months prior to hospital admission) and 12-month fall history will be collected during the baseline assessment.
[ 12] In another cohort of COPD patients on mechanical ventilation for >14 days, survival at one year was associated with pre-morbid level of activity, FEV1, serum albumin level and severity of dyspnea.
While many have hypothesized that breast conservation will result in better post-treatment functioning than mastectomy, in reviewing the literature we found that adjusted physical function scores were not significantly different by treatment group, [ 12] but rather, largely related to women's general pre-morbid level of illness [ 16, 17, 40- 43].
However, literature suggests that postoperative TJR patients may not reach pre-morbid levels of physical capacity [ 40, 41].
Informant-based instruments that assess functional ability are also prone to high degrees of variability due to varying pre-morbid levels of function and gender differences in the degree of participation in many of the functional activities that are assessed [ 31].
Our patient's functional restoration was similar all returned to their pre-morbid level.
Our patients achieved this, and their DASH and OSS scores returned to their pre-morbid level.
