SARASOTA – A 72-year-old, widowed polio survivor whose unorthodox swimming style rated a Jan. 31 story in the Herald-Tribune has been blown away by a community determined to keep her moving. “My mouth ...

SARASOTA – Left leg strapped snugly into an aging brace, spine curved by an exhausted scourge from another era, diminutive Kathi Coleman is among the last of her kind. She is hard to miss as she ...

NeLo is a flexible leg brace that uses sensor data to help polio patients -- and people with sports injuries -- lock and unlock their knees when walking. The brace is designed to switch between being ...

ANN ARBOR, MI - Liina Paasuke cannot remember a time without leg braces. A polio survivor from a young age, all her memories consist of walking with leg and back braces and crutches. The experience ...

FDR contracted polio at the age of 39, which left his legs partially paralyzed. Fearing this would impact his bid for presidency, he came to an agreement with the press: no photos of him walking or ...

Every now and then, while reminiscing with old friends about our grammar school days in the late 1940s and early 1950s, the dreaded word “polio” almost always comes up. Although polio was eliminated ...

To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the polio vaccine, this multimedia exhibition tells the story of polio from the perspective of the patient, traces the development of the ...