The term crippled is used to designate those people who have some type of injury, especially if it is permanent or irreversible. A cripple is a person who has some kind of physical difficulty following the normal parameters of health and well-being and who therefore cannot lead a complete and fully satisfactory life. A person who is crippled may be crippled because of a particular situation that occurred during her life or since her birth.
The word cripple is related to the verb cripple. To cripple is to hurt or generate some type of permanent injury to a person. This aggressive action can be generated both by one person to another, as by an object, even by natural forces of nature. The disabled person then suffers from a certain type of disability that prevents them from acting as a person considered healthy would normally do and must have some type of technological assistance that can be more or less useful depending on each case.
When speaking of disabled people, reference is made mainly to people who suffer from some disability in their extremities, usually in the legs. Therefore, it is common to associate the qualifying adjective of crippled with a person who is in a wheelchair, who does not have both legs or who has some difficulty or complication to move normally and comfortably. Since in most cases the disabled condition is permanent, there are few occasions in which the person can recover from the injury and must then face the rest of his life in these conditions. Counting on technical and technological help, but mainly on moral, emotional and psychological help is always necessary so that a person can better deal with such a situation.