User blog comment:Bluestripe the Wild/Fan Fic Questions/@comment-1298206-20100417022623

Well, his back is injured, so his back is more sensitive. He's slower, but he isn't, for example, wheelchair handicapped or paralyzed from waist down. Also, the hares were sure that they guarded his back extra carefully. You know how he has bad Bloodwrath, right? Going off into all those battle with Bloodwrath lets him let it all out and his family isn't endangered.