The Post Polio Experience

Author : Margaret Backman
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595386393
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Post-Polio Experience written by Margaret Backman and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today many polio survivors are finding themselves with new symptoms reminiscent of the earlier days when they first had polio-new symptoms that trigger frightening memories, along with anxieties that had long been repressed. Dr. Backman, a Clinical Psychologist, examines polio survivors' psychological reactions to their earlier experiences and to their current struggles with the late effects of polio. The Post-Polio Experience includes guidelines for polio survivors on: Coping with the emotional and interpersonal aspects of Post-Polio Syndrome Managing stress and depression Negotiating relationships with family and friends Developing a positive self-concept Improving doctor-patient communication Family and friends learn how to deal with the changing roles that they and the survivor now face, and gain insight into their own needs, as they interact and sometimes conflict with the polio survivor's needs. Mental health providers and physicians gain a better understanding of their patients' psychological reactions to Post-Polio Syndrome-paving the way for more effective treatment.

Author : Julie K. Silver
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300088086
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Post-polio Syndrome written by Julie K. Silver and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The effects of polio that occur decades after the disease has run its course--weakness, fatigue, pain, intolerance to cold, difficulty with breathing and swallowing--are often more devastating than the original disease. This book on the diagnosis and management of polio-related health problems is an essential resource for polio survivors and their families and health care providers. Dr. Julie K. Silver, who has both personal and professional experience with post-polio syndrome, begins the book by defining and describing PPS and providing a historical overview of its diagnosis and treatment. Chapters that follow discuss finding good medical care, dealing with symptoms, maintaining proper nutrition and weight, preventing osteoporosis and falls, and sustaining mobility. Dr. Silver reviews the latest in braces, shoes, assistive devices, and wheelchairs and scooters. She also explores issues involving managing pain, surgery, complementary and alternative medicine, safe and comfortable living environments, insurance and disability, and sex and intimacy.

Author : Lauro S. Halstead
Publisher : ABI Professional Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Managing Post-polio written by Lauro S. Halstead and published by ABI Professional Publications. This book was released on 1998 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Wenzel A. Leff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578088433
Total Pages : 2109 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Traveling Without a Spare written by Wenzel A. Leff and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 2109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decades after recovering from polio, many aging Americans are grappling with an emergence of new pain, weakness, and fatigue. This unforeseen symphony of symptoms is a central fact of many polio survivors¿ lives. In Traveling Without A Spare: A Survivor¿s Guide to Navigating the Post-Polio Journey, Wenzel A. Leff, MD, explains how polio¿s initial attack depleted the body¿s neuromuscular reserves, so that when former polio patients begin to lose cells to the natural process of aging, they find they are truly ¿traveling without a spare.¿The author draws from his own polio experience and his forty-plus-year career in Internal Medicine to provide polio survivors and their families, caregivers, and healthcare team a clearer understanding of the stages and complexities of polio. This informative book will help survivors evaluate their own bodies and condition, and empower them to make the most of their remaining strength and mobility."With medical and scientific acumen, but also wisdom and humor, Dr. Leff has given us a well-written treatise on post-polio syndrome, as manifested through his professional and personal life."Neil R. Cashman, MDCanada Research Chair at the University of British Columbia,Scientific Director of PrioNet Canada and Chair of Post-Polio Task Force (1997-99)

Author : Daniel J. Wilson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226901068
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Living with Polio written by Daniel J. Wilson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-11-15 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Polio was the most dreaded childhood disease of twentieth-century America. Every summer during the 1940s and 1950s, parents were terrorized by the thought that polio might cripple their children. They warned their children not to drink from public fountains, to avoid swimming pools, and to stay away from movie theaters and other crowded places. Whenever and wherever polio struck, hospitals filled with victims of the virus. Many experienced only temporary paralysis, but others faced a lifetime of disability. Living with Polio is the first book to focus primarily on the personal stories of the men and women who had acute polio and lived with its crippling consequences. Writing from personal experience, polio survivor Daniel J. Wilson shapes this impassioned book with the testimonials of more than one hundred polio victims, focusing on the years between 1930 and 1960. He traces the entire life experience of the survivors—from the alarming diagnosis all the way to the recent development of post-polio syndrome, a condition in which the symptoms of the disease may return two or three decades after they originally surfaced. Living with Polio follows every physical and emotional stage of the disease: the loneliness of long separations from family and friends suffered by hospitalized victims; the rehabilitation facilitieswhere survivors spent a full year or more painfully trying to regain the use of their paralyzed muscles; and then the return home, where they were faced with readjusting to school or work with the aid of braces, crutches, or wheelchairs while their families faced the difficult responsibilities of caring for and supporting a child or spouse with a disability. Poignant and gripping, Living with Polio is a compelling history of the enduring physical and psychological experience of polio straight from the rarely heard voices of its survivors.

Author : Thomas Abraham
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1787380874
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Polio written by Thomas Abraham and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-29 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1988, the World Health Organization launched a twelve-year campaign to wipe out polio. Thirty years and several billion dollars over budget later, the campaign grinds on, vaccinating millions of children and hoping that each new year might see an end to the disease. But success remains elusive, against a surprisingly resilient virus, an unexpectedly weak vaccine and the vagaries of global politics, meeting with indifference from governments and populations alike. How did an innocuous campaign to rid the world of a crippling disease become a hostage of geopolitics? Why do parents refuse to vaccinate their children against polio? And why have poorly paid door-to-door healthworkers been assassinated? Thomas Abraham reports on the ground in search of answers.

Author : Richard L. Bruno
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0446556904
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Polio Paradox written by Richard L. Bruno and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2009-02-28 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the threat of polio ended with the Salk vaccine in 1954, many polio survivors are now experiencing the onset of post-polio syndrome (PPS), a complication with new but related symptoms such as chronic fatigue and joint pain.

Author : Dóra Vargha
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108420842
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Polio Across the Iron Curtain written by Dóra Vargha and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-11 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the lens of polio, Dóra Vargha looks anew at international health, communism and Cold War politics. This title is also available as Open Access.

Author : Lauro S. Halstead
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Late Effects of Poliomyelitis written by Lauro S. Halstead and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jerry Apps
Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 0870205870
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Limping through Life written by Jerry Apps and published by Wisconsin Historical Society. This book was released on 2013-04-24 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Limping through Life A Farm Boy’s Polio Memoir Jerry Apps “Families throughout the United States lived in fear of polio throughout the late 1940s and early 1950s, and now the disease had come to our farm. I can still remember that short winter day and the chilly night when I first showed symptoms. My life would never be the same.” —from the Introduction Polio was epidemic in the United States starting in 1916. By the 1930s, quarantines and school closings were becoming common, as isolation was one of the only ways to fight the disease. The Sauk vaccine was not available until 1955; in that year, Wisconsin’s Fox River valley had more polio cases per capita than anywhere in the United States. In his most personal book, Jerry Apps, who contracted polio at age twelve, reveals how the disease affected him physically and emotionally, profoundly influencing his education, military service, and family life and setting him on the path to becoming a professional writer. A hardworking farm kid who loved playing softball, young Jerry Apps would have to make many adjustments and meet many challenges after that winter night he was stricken with a debilitating, sometimes fatal illness. In Limping through Life he explores the ways his world changed after polio and pays tribute to those family members, teachers, and friends who helped him along the way.