With a new hit film, Netflix has reduced disabled lives to feelgood fodder – and got the facts shockingly wrong | Archie Bland and Ruth Spencer

There is an extraordinary treatment available for children with severe neurological disabilities.

The Cytotron is the subject of the Mexican movie Lucca ’s World, the No 1 non- English -language film on Netflix last week .

It follows one family led by a remarkable mother, Bárbara Anderson , on whose memoir the movie is based, as they turn every stone in pursuit of a better life for their little boy.

The film is a dramatisation, and we don't know exactly what his life post-treatment looks like.

But we can say this: the actor in the movie “walked” with the soles of his feet squarely on the ground, not something that Lucca appears able to do in videos of him using a supportive device on his Instagram feed.