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What are the types of locomotor disabilities?

Common examples are: rickets, diabetes mellitus, gout etc. There can be degenerative causes too. Examples are: motor neuron disease, parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis, osteo arthritis, spondylosis etc.

Which type of disability is locomotor disability?

Strictly speaking Locomotor Disability means problem in moving from one place to another — i.e. disability in legs. But, in general, it is taken as a disability related with bones, joints and Page 3 muscles. It causes problems in person’s movements (like walking, picking or holding things in hand etc.)

What are the 10 example of locomotor?

The key locomotor skills are walking, running, jumping, hopping, crawling, marching, climbing, galloping, sliding, leaping, hopping, and skipping.

What causes locomotor disability?

People with locomotor disability have difficulty with activities associated with moving themselves and objects from one place to another, due to the impairment of the muscles, skeleton and/or nervous system. This inability to move prevents the individual from undertaking such activities and presents a major physical challenge. Such an impairment can be the result of a physical injury, medical condition, congenital defect or a neurological disorder.

The word “locomotor” originated from the Latin words “loco”, which means “from a place” and “motivation,” “from a place,” and “motivus,” “causing motion”. Thus, locomotion refers to movement from one location to another.

A petition that was filed by MBBS medical doctor Mohd Shaloo MCI informed the Delhi High Court that they changed their “Notification for PG Medical Courses” and added “Divyang” with greater than 80 percent locomotor impairment qualified for postgraduate medical programs.

However, the lawyer who argued for the petitioner said the amendment was just an “eyewash” as the amendment was not intended to cover individuals who have disabilities of all kinds.

Advocate Gaurav Kumar Bansal argued before the court that those with disabilities, including blood disorders and chronic neurological disorders, are excluded from postgraduate medical programs. “This is against Article 21 of the Constitution of India and also violates various provisions of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act 2016,” claimed the lawyer.