oh my other little problem with the mobility aid fearmongering that's going around tumblr crip circles rn is that it's acting like muscle stiffness/pain/reconditioning is, like, always a tradeoff with different pain, when ime a lot of people who rely on mobility aids that aren't prescribed by doctors do so because they're fall risks, not because of pain
pretty much no injury that is caused by a mobility aid will ever be as bad as a concussion and if you're claiming to be imparting risk assessment information on underinformed demographics you should really at least be acknowledging how horrifically fucking dangerous concussions are and how much all muscular damage/weakening from improperly-sized mobility aids and the vast majority of associated joint & muscle damage from long-term mobility aid use pale vastly in comparison to fucking concussions
my advice: if you're a fall risk get the damn mobility aid. repeated concussions will kill you with basically no warning. it doesn't matter if you're a fall risk because of vertigo, seizures, fainting, w/e, use the mobility aid before you end up dead, i beg you.