![]() ![]() Recognizing how their lives may be disabled-and what can be done about that-involves taking a closer look at what we mean by disability and its attendant disadvantages.Įffects of the medical model of disability But, as with many chronic conditions, many of them will not find a cure nor will they find complete relief for the symptoms they experience. No doubt, many individuals with musculoskeletal disorders present themselves in the clinic as people looking for a cure, a treatment, or help dealing with their condition. As disability scholar Liz Crow notes, this medical model of disability holds that “a person’s functional limitations (impairments) are the root cause of any disadvantages experienced and these disadvantages can therefore only be rectified by treatment or cure”. So construed, disability is primarily an individual’s medical problem in need of treatment. ![]() ![]() As a consequence, that individual is thought to require treatment or care to fix the disability, to approximate normal functioning, or perhaps as a last measure, to help the individual adapt and learn to function despite the disability. A standard medical approach, indeed a common lay-person’s approach, to thinking about disability involves viewing it as a problem that exists in a person’s body. ![]()
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