About 2 years ago, I was in Paris and took a day trip to Disney Paris (reasons for this are unimportant). You know what I did not see one of: adults in scooters. You go to Disney in FL, and they are everywhere. I feel like scootering just begets more scootering. Get up and walk! Rest when you need, but unless you have some serious paralysis or advanced MS or something get moving people. I'm no physical therapist, but this seems to be common sense. I'm judging so forgive me, but I'd see folks (mostly very overweight) park the scooter and walk around. Play the long game people.
Also, those doctor's office people stink.
Twenty one years ago my wife suffered from a nearly fatal brain injury. For the med. tech. savvy here, it was an AVM that resulted in stroke like paralysis on the entire left side, with zero recovery. After three months of rehab. she walked out of the hospital (with a cane and leg brace) and resumed life. Raised two little preschoolers, and taught school to finish off a thirty year career. She is an outlier in the extreme, in that she never gave up, even for a minute. She comes from a line of old school Russian women who are so tough they can be scary, seriously.
She finds scooters to be entertaining. Her stroke specialist demanded and hounded her until she allowed the insurance company to buy her one. It served two useful purposes. Originally it would sit in the garage until the battery died, then I would charge it up and let our little kids drive it in circles until it died again. Next, as a friend's MS got worse, we donated it to him, as he didn't have the means to afford one. We have two scooter related interactions on a regular basis now. First, if a store has them available for customer use, there is frequently an employee who offers to get one for her use. This is politely declined, but occasionally some dumb-assed greeter (typically from Walmart) decided that it's worth an argument. As you might imagine, it's quite an odd disagreement, LOL. She really enjoys the subtle shaming the happens when she bumps into the other odd segment of our culture that has no need for a scooter, but are too damn lazy to walk, Oddly, this is almost universally an early adult to middle aged, obese female. The wife will be entering the store and pass by somebody who is about to beach themselves on a scooter. They look at her, get a bit pale, and often bolt out of the chair, to offer it to somebody who really needs one. She politely declines, but it's painfully awkward for the other person. Now, It's easy to think that maybe we are judging another person who really needs the thing, but there is an odd "self-certification" that goes on. Often, If somebody is legitimately using a loaner scooter and spots her, they typically offer that they are recovering from some type of surgery, or some similar comment. They need it, and have no issue with telling another disabled person why. The best are the slackers that get caught as she rounds the corner and finds them walking, or stretching to grab something on the top shelf. As always, she it totally cool and non-judgmental about it. She doesn't use them and couldn't care who does, but the guilty ones are hilarious. We have seen "disabled" women panic at this that that point, and do everything from turning red, while babbling about why they are using a store scooter, to desperately trying to convince the wife to take the thing, LOL. That said, when somebody looks horrified, shoots out of the chair like a jack-in-the-box, and quickly walks away, I catch my DW with a subtle smirk.