Word: postpolio
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...swept through the U.S., infecting millions and leaving some 640,000 (mostly children) with varying degrees of paralysis, survivors are being revisited by a degenerative muscle condition that has precisely the same symptoms as a mild case of polio. The ailment is known as acute paralytic poliomyelitis sequelae, or postpolio syndrome. Doctors aren't certain what causes it or how best to treat it (for many years physicians prescribed exercises that exacerbated the condition), but they believe the problem will get worse before it gets better. Before the end of the decade, by one estimate, postpolio syndrome will strike...
...polio survivors, it is particularly disheartening, years after recovering, to find that again they cannot climb stairs or even comb their ! hair. Until recently, doctors frequently thought that these postpolio victims were imagining their problems. But as more people began to experience the same crippling aftereffects, it became apparent that PPMA was a physical disorder common to approximately 15% to 20% of former polio patients...