Post-Polio Syndrome

Survivors of the 1950s polio epidemics, many of them now well over age 60, have once again developed symptoms of weakness, fatigue, and musculoskeletal pain decades after the initial episode of acute paralytic poliomyelitis. Nurses in both acute and primary care settings will soon be encountering an...

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Published in:The American journal of nursing 2000-12, Vol.100 (12), p.60-67
Main Authors: Chasens, Eileen R., Umlaut, Mary G.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Activities of Daily Living
Adaptation, Psychological
Association
Breathing
Fatigue
Humans
Hypoventilation
Information Services
Medications
Nurses
Nursing
Nursing Assessment
Older people
Patient Education as Topic
Polio
Poliomyelitis
Postpoliomyelitis syndrome
Postpoliomyelitis Syndrome - nursing
Postpoliomyelitis Syndrome - physiopathology
Postpoliomyelitis Syndrome - psychology
Self Care
Self-Help Groups
Sleep
Survivors - psychology
Swallowing
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Summary:Survivors of the 1950s polio epidemics, many of them now well over age 60, have once again developed symptoms of weakness, fatigue, and musculoskeletal pain decades after the initial episode of acute paralytic poliomyelitis. Nurses in both acute and primary care settings will soon be encountering an increasing number of patients with post-polio syndrome.
ISSN:0002-936X
1538-7488
DOI:10.1097/00000446-200012000-00043