How do you deal with patients with a spinal cord injury who don’t want to use a wheelchair? - Toby Huston, PhD

For some people, they’ve tried to put themselves into one box or another. Either, “I have hope that I’m going to walk again and so I don’t need the wheelchair,” or, “I given up on any hope of walking again and I’ll fully embrace the wheelchair.” I talk to people about, “We’re complicated beings and that more than one thing can be true. I can choose to temporally use this chair while I need it to get around.” And it doesn’t say anything about, “I hope someday not to need it”.