Polio physiotherapy. Physiotherapist treating a child patient who has been paralysed by polio. The pool, where the patient is receiving a form of hydr
Polio physiotherapy. Physiotherapist treating a child patient who has been paralysed by polio. The pool, where the patient is receiving a form of hydrotherapy, is named ' Polio'. Polio, also known as poliomyelitis and infantile paralysis, is a childhood disease caused by a virus. Polio epidemics in the early 20th century left thousands paralysed. Vaccines were developed in the 1950s and 1960s. Photographed on 1 April 1936, at the newly equipped Physiotherapy Department of the Tennessee Junior League Home for Crippled Children in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
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