What Information Can I Give My Physician About the Late Effects of Polio ?

We have information from multiple sources that can help.

Self advocacy isn’t as easy as it sounds. We must realize that physicians ask for the information you provide them, and the questions you ask, be succinct, well thought out and organized.

Responding to them in a way that honors these ideas, will often result in positive and informed conversation between you.

Go to: Information for Health Care Providers and Caregivers (under the Heading: Post-Polio Syndrome).

• This page has more than 50 articles and videos, from numerous resources.

• 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, William M. DeMayo, MD, Marny K. Eulberg, MD, Julie Silver, MD, Lauro Halstead, MD, Polio Australia, Post-Polio Health International, Carol Vandenakker-Albanese, MD, Daniel J. Wilson, PHD (and more).

• This page has DIRECT links to these pages of interest:

  • Anesthesia Concerns,

  • Diagnosing PPS,

  • Encyclopedia of Polio and PPS,

  • Living with Post-Polio Syndrome,

  • Primary Care,

  • Rehabilitative Care,

  • Symptom Checklist and Treatment Warnings and

  • What IS Post-Polio Syndrome.

When You Go To Your Physician: This information below will take he/she to the webpage referenced above.

• Take along a copy of this easily downloaded document, and show them this QR code.

  • He/she can scan this QR code with their phone making it very easy to access the information noted above.

• Take a copy of the easily downloaded Symptom Checklist and Treatment Warnings.

Let them know that they can easily see the biographies of the authors we publish

Notes:

1. This article is available on our website under the Heading: “Living with PPS”, with the ability to download and print. Go to the Index under the topic(s): diagnosis, physician, symptom checklist or treatment warnings.

2. 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 continued the information cited in that book in his ongoing work “The Encyclopedia of Polio and PPS”. It is easily accessed in the information above.