I thought of the muscular twitches because when my legs are going at it, the only way I get any sleep is to tie them together with my bathrobe. I didn't know he had pants under the bandages. This makes me more eager to say spasticity.
I got the impression his legs themselves were crushed. You're right, it's almost always a subset of spinal injuries in media representing all disability, and especially all wheelchair use, but before modern medicine got better at dealing with paralysis, people with paraplegia nearly all died of infections in the first year. Teo wouldn't have survived if he had paraplegia in the avatarverse.
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Date: 2013-03-19 08:01 pm (UTC)I got the impression his legs themselves were crushed. You're right, it's almost always a subset of spinal injuries in media representing all disability, and especially all wheelchair use, but before modern medicine got better at dealing with paralysis, people with paraplegia nearly all died of infections in the first year. Teo wouldn't have survived if he had paraplegia in the avatarverse.