Some post-polio patients originally had mild symptoms. Others needed leg braces, calipers, or an iron lung. For the latter group, the reemergence of symptoms can feel like a deal gone sour.

Polio is returning to haunt survivors as ... the doctors and gradually learned to walk again by wearing a calliper on his right leg. Five years later he was able to cast off his heavy boot and ...

A woman from Hanham with polio says alleged incompetence ... is a “terrible” fit for her leg. The 67-year-old has repeatedly complained to the NHS that her caliper causes her agony and is ...

And those who grew up before the polio vaccine was available have memories of children returning to school in leg braces, requiring crutches, or using a wheelchair due to paralysis after a bout ...

more than a decade before the polio vaccine was invented by Jonas Salk. As her body grew, so did her affected leg, but it never quite caught up. Polio left her with a foot that was smaller than ...

Ms Chadwick attended check-ups at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London throughout her childhood after an aunt recommended the polio clinic there. She was fitted with a caliper on her right leg ...