why can’t people in wheelchairs get prosthetic legs to help them walk again? I just saw a video of someone go from a wheelchair to prosthetics and was wondering why more people can’t do this
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People aren’t just in wheelchairs for leg problems. Someone with an broken spinal cord will be completely unable to control their legs/prosthetics to begin with. There’s no doubt a million different cases and conditions I haven’t heard of that aren’t in someone’s legs but still manifest as them being unable to walk.
Unfortunately, good prosthetics are also expensive – you have to get them fitted, and they have to be made of biologically unreactive materials (that one’s not in itself too much of a price issue, unless the whole thing is made of titanium), they have to be light but strong, it’s a whole thing. To a certain extent (ignoring hire fees and whatever other garbage exists in the system), you can just dump someone in a wheelchair and turn your focus to more immediate medical fees. This may be the short term option, or for particularly problematic conditions, payments for repeated medication and treatment.
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