What Information can I give my physician about PPS ?
Tied with “Can I exercise”, this may be our #1 question. We have information that can help.
This website has multiple categories under the Heading: Post-Polio Syndrome. One of which is: Information for Health Care Providers and Caregivers.
•This page has more than 50 articles and videos, from numerous resources on this topic.
•The Index is easily accessible and lists not only the many article topics but the authors as well.
•You will find information from: John Bach, MD, Norma Braun, MD, Richard Bruno, PhD, Selma Calmes, MD, Marny Eulberg, MD, Polio Australia, Post-Polio Health International, Carol Vandenakker-Albanese, MD (and more).
•In addition, this page has DIRECT links for your physician to these pages:
The Encyclopedia of Polio and PPS,
Living with Post-Polio Syndrome,
Primary Care, Rehabilitative Care,
Symptom Checklist and Treatment Warnings and
When you go to your physician:
Give them this link: https://polionetwork.org/caregivers (or)
Take a copy of this article along with the Symptom Checklist (available below for download below).
The QR code in the article can easily be scanned with their phone – making it very easy to access the information noted above.
Let them know that they can easily see the biographies of the authors we publish.
The goal is for this information to give both of you the opportunity for productive conversation.
Many of you have told us you’ve given the book The Polio Paradox by Richard L. Bruno, PhD to your physicians – hoping they would read it.
Dr. Bruno has updated and continued the information cited in that book in his ongoing work The Encyclopedia of Polio and PPS. It is noted in the information above (and is easily accessed through phones).