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POLIO'S PULL FROM PAST ; DECADES AFTER RECOVERY, MANY DISEASE SURVIVORS SUFFER RECURRENCE OF SYMPTOMS
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Hartford Courant
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Hartford, Conn.
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Polio survivors like [Ed Bollenbach] had recovered because surviving nerve cells compensated for the loss of others by making more connections than normal to muscle groups, said Dr. Phil Arnold, a physiatrist -- a physician specializing in physical medicine and rehabilitation -- who originally diagnosed Bollenbach and who treated many cases of post-polio syndrome before he retired. He points out that many polio survivors, including some severely afflicted in their youth, never develop post-polio symptoms. One study detected fragments of polio-virus protein in the blood of people with post-polio syndrome and not in the blood of other polio survivors, he said, suggesting some other mechanism might be at work. That is particularly difficult for post-polio patients to accept, Bollenbach said. He said he and many others with post-polio rebel against using the leg braces and wheelchairs they had depended on as children. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction or distribution is prohibited without permission.
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