Trial, error, and toe covers: Learning to adapt in life with ALS
WHY IT MATTERS
This personal account offers practical insights into managing mobility challenges with ALS, which can help newly diagnosed patients understand what to expect and how others have successfully adapted to assistive devices.
A person living with ALS shares their experience learning to use ankle-foot orthoses (AFOs), which are braces that help with walking. At first, they didn't want to use them because they represented another big life change after their ALS diagnosis. But through trial and error, they found ways to adapt and make the braces work for them.
I’ll admit that there were times when I simply wanted to toss my ankle-foot orthoses (AFOs) into the trash bin and be done with them. In the early years after my ALS diagnosis, those braces represented one more massive change in my life that I had to learn to live with. But then, the simple […] The post Trial, error, and toe covers: Learning to adapt in life with ALS appeared first on ALS News Today .