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...Baker's book is a gold mine of hints to the legless (of whom there are some 128,000 in the U.S.). Samples: 1) watch out for dogs-they are liable to get a paw caught in your crutch; 2) the most efficient and attractive crutch position is dead vertical; 3) a legless person can always make a sucker of a carnival weight guesser; 4) a good way to relieve the boredom of answering nosybodies who want to know how it happened is to tell whoppers (a favorite Baker whopper: her leg got frozen stiff in skiing...
...polio victims treated by Sister Kenny get up and walk; those treated by other orthopedists become lifelong 'brace-&-crutch cripples. The facts: Sister Kenny's record in Minneapolis, over a five-year period, has just about matched the average for all modern polio treatment: 6% deaths, 16% remaining severely paralyzed...
...training of a paraplegic starts almost from scratch. David could not dress himself or put on braces without help, could barely sit erect. But after six weeks of push-ups and other exercises to strengthen arms, shoulders and abdominal muscles, he was ready to begin crutch work. To walk, he had to learn to swing his body by gravity, like a pendulum. But learning to walk is only part of it. For a paraplegic, getting in & out of a chair or opening a door is a major undertaking, made up of many intricate, precisely timed movements which take weeks...
...April 30, it could probably not last a year. This act gives the Philippines eight years of free trade with the U.S., then 20 years during which tariffs will be upped gradually until they are in line with the rest of U.S. tariff policy. It will be a mighty crutch to the young and apprehensive Republic...
...never felt quite strong enough to walk without the crutch of Big Three meetings. When Harry Truman removed the crutch last week, Russia and Britain wondered just what Truman meant...