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Post-polio syndrome (PPS, poliomyelitis sequelae) is a group of latent symptoms of poliomyelitis (polio), occurring in more than 80% of polio infections. The symptoms are caused by the damaging effects of the viral infection on the nervous system and typically occur 15 to 30 years after an initial acute paralytic attack.
Poliomyelitis (/ ˌ p oʊ l i oʊ ˌ m aɪ ə ˈ l aɪ t ɪ s / POH-lee-oh-MY-ə-LY-tiss), commonly shortened to polio, is an infectious disease caused by the poliovirus. [1] Approximately 75% of cases are asymptomatic; [5] mild symptoms which can occur include sore throat and fever; in a proportion of cases more severe symptoms develop such as headache, neck stiffness, and paresthesia.
Perry made major contributions to the fields of post-polio syndrome and gait analysis. [1] A building named after her stands at Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center . [ citation needed ]
Post-Polio Health International (PHI) is a relatively new name for a non-profit organization that officially began its work in 1960. For many years it was known in medical, rehabilitation, and disability circles variously as GINI, or the International Polio Network, or the Rehabilitation Gazette Network, [1] or more familiarly as Gini’s Network, in honor of Gini Laurie, its founder and ...
He contracted polio at the age of six months, and was completely paralysed for a time, and now walks with a limp. [53] David Starkey: born 1945: Radio and television presenter and English historian, Starkey was born with two club feet and caught polio as an infant. He recalled, "I spent a lot of my infancy in hospital and actually started ...
The British Polio Fellowship is a charitable organisation supporting and empowering people in the UK living with the late effects of polio and post-polio syndrome (PPS). It provides information, welfare and support to those affected, to enable them to live full, independent and integrated lives and campaigns to raise awareness of PPS.
In 1978, Schoenfelder was a co-founder and director of the Polio Survivors Foundation, with four other women she knew as fellow patients at Rancho Los Amigos. [4] [5] [6] She was also secretary of the Totally Disabled Helpers Association, a fundraising and mutual assistance group of polio survivors based in Northridge, California. [7] [8]
Der Perlman set up a separate clinic for post-polio syndrome, to teach the basics of post-polio to neurology and rehabilitation residents; the clinic sees about 200 patients a year, for evaluation and treatment. [1] She has clinical interests in liver transplantation and neuro-genetics. [2]