Kitten With Swimmers Legs

Hello!

My name is Caroline, I am 21 years old, and I live in North/Central FL.

My story:
A stray queen in my apartment complex gave birth to a litter of four precious babies about a month ago, or so. Sadly, one of them was born with Swimmers Legs. That means that her back legs are splayed out all funny, so she can’t walk properly and has to scoot around everywhere.

** Two of the kittens are male, and two are female. The orange kitten, and Legs (the one with the disorder) are both genetically bob-tailed, just like their diluted tortoiseshell mother!
They are literally the sweetest things, and have been great regarding socialization with humans and other cats. **

I am wondering if there is any advice on there about fixing her problem, if fixable?
We took her to the vet recently, and was basically told that what she had was Swimmers Syndrome and there was nothing we could do. I think that’s crap, considering there is a lot online about doing physiotherapy and taping the legs under her to help her work the muscles so that eventually they will be strong enough to hold her up and be used properly. Honestly, that vet visit was rushed and just a mess, like the vet literally looked at her for maybe 20 seconds before giving us that diagnosis.

Anyway, we are moving across the state in two weeks, and are taking Legs with us. We found a rescue that will take her other siblings. They’re seriously great and hopefully can find their forever homes. Since Legs has her disability, we believe her euthanasia rate is high and just don’t want to risk it. Once we move, I will be a stay-at-home student and will have all the time in the world to work on rehabilitating Legs.

My concern is proper techniques and her age. She is currently about 4-5 weeks old, so I don’t want to take her away from her mother just yet, but I am worried that if I wait till we move to start on her legs, then it may be too late.
Although, I did see a video about a cat named Scooter or something where they tried fixing his legs at a MUCH older age, he just had some other underlying conditions and nerve damage so it didn’t work out, I guess. But it gives me hope that even if I wait a little longer it won’t be too late!

Here’s a couple pictures of her:
~ The pictures are about 10 days old so the kittens are a bit bigger now ~