Top 10 Reasons Prosthetic Limbs ARE medically necessary
- Full body movement creates health, increases endorphins, and significantly improves digestion- aka walking, running, dancing, skipping, snowboarding, yoga.
- Amputees with severe injuries are sometimes required to wear their prosthesis to avoid further injury and surgery.
- Walking is a human right just as water is.
- Grasping , clinging, hugging, lifting, folding, lighting a match, writing, are all important gross motor skills fundamental to human survival.
- Exorbitant ongoing pressure on a a remaining limb weakens the limb, causing more medical problems, and for insurance carriers, more long term costs.
- Daily tasks, to function well in human society, become much more difficult without a prosthesis, in some cases limiting or eliminating the ability to work and pay taxes.
- Standing tall, walking, being able to stand for hours, or walk long distances allows prosthetic wearers to contribute meaningfully to the world with their jobs and families.
- Prosthetics often help veterans deal much better with phantom pain and PTSD because prosthetics provide necessary compression and get veterans moving ,feeling normal again.
- In other parts of the world. where prosthetics may be hard to get, many amputees end up on the streets, which drains the resources of the community in which they live due to violence,drugs, disease and helplessness.
- Finally, if an AMPUTEE Physician told any old male physician or male insurance agent that penises aren't medically necessary, there would be no more discussion on this subject.
Just sayin...
Love,
Marsha
A below knee amputee
www.yogaforamputees.com
