Polio and Post-Polio Syndrome
Post-polio syndrome: a case report. Bougie
JD, Cassidy JD, and Donat JR. Journal of the Neuromusculoskeletal
System, summer 1994; 2(2): 75-78.
A discussion of this condition,
which presents as symptoms of weakness, pain and fatigue
experienced by patients who were afflicted with polio.
Clients
evaluation of chiropractic treatment for post polio syndrome.
Westbrook MT. J of the Australian Chiropractors’ Association,
1990; 20:147-157.
In this survey of 304 people who had survived
polio and who had post polio syndrome (general fatigue, pain,
muscular weakness, muscle atrophy, cold intolerance, dyspnea,
dysphagia and sleep apnea), it was revealed that chiropractors
were significantly more likely than M.D.s or physiotherapists
to be rated as helpful.
Polio Poster Girl Walks Again Chiropractic
Home August 1957 Volume XX1, No. 8.
(Photos and data were provided
by Chiropractic News publishing corporation of Detroit, Michigan.)
Reproductions
of March of Dimes polio poster child five-year-old Winifred
Gardella of Stockton, CA were used during the 1952-53 March
of Dimes Campaign. It showed her in a hospital crib and carried
the following caption: “WILL WALK AGAIN.”
“There is no hope!” These were the words given
to the family of little Winifred Gardella after 2 ½ years
of expert care by the March of Dimes.”
She was declared a hopeless paraplegic after 2 ½ years
of care. Her grandparents took their granddaughter to Glendale,
California chiropractor Dr. Lewis Robertson and after six
months, she was able to walk again without crutches or braces.
Photo
caption: “Yes, Winifred can walk and run now.
A doctor of Chiropractic took over. Dr. Lewis Robertson,
a member of “We Walk Again” foundation, restored
Winifred to a happy, health childhood. She now walks with
her doctor.”
The issue highlighted another such story with a photo caption: “Kicking
out in a dance step with complete confidence is Karen Moore,
4, another polio poster girl, with her Chiropractor, Dr.
Henry G. Sole. After twenty weeks of regular medical care
had left her in braces, Dr. Sole took over. You see the results
(picture of happy doctor and patient).”
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