Sometimes life throws you a curve ball and your parts don't want to work like they should for awhile. The doctor will tell you to stay off that leg or not to lift more than ten pounds (how much does your arm weigh?). Whatever the matter, if physical therapy doesn't happen, you might find yourself with limited strength and mobility. We tend to favor on arm, one leg, or one side because we know the other is weaker and has been injured before.
Now sometimes there's not much you can do about that, but what I've seen is that years of favoring one side creates a great imbalance that a person could mistake as being a "bum leg" or whatever the part is. From what I know about bums, they don't want to work and don't try, and that's what happens to appendages that don't get used. Instead of working them and rehabilitating them like we ought to, they are neglected and protected and an imbalance is created. So now what has already healed is now weak and getting increasingly weaker as it doesn't get any work.
The answer to this is, of course, work!
Exercise what is weak, even spend extra time on it to bring it up. It would be sad to settle for impairment if full fuction is available, albeit with a little effort.
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