April 2025 Newsletter

There has been a lot in the media lately about the dangers of taking too much Vit B6. Firstly: we should only be taking extra amounts of anything, if we have signs of needing more. It is better to only take exactly what we are needing, in the doses we need it ie does itContinue reading “April 2025 Newsletter”

Dental anaesthetics

Preventing complications in polio survivors undergoing dental procedures Richard L. Bruno, Ph.D. Lincolnshire Post-Polio Library copy by arrangement with the Harvest Center Library. As the original source is no longer live Director: Post-Polio Rehabilitation and Research Service, Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation – Saddle Brook Associate Professor: Clinical Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, New Jersey Medical School/UMDNJ Chairperson, InternationalContinue reading “Dental anaesthetics”

Caution with drugs and exercise

Polio and Post-Polio Sequelae: The Lived Experience Dorothy Woods Smith, PhD, RN, AHN-BC, QTTT, Associate Professor EmeritaUniversity of Southern Maine, Portland, ME, 04103 Published in the Journal of Orthopaedic Nursing, Vol.8/No.5, 1989, pp. 24-28Excerpts from this Journal edition Treatment for PPS My concerns are shared by other polio survivors, and are not unfounded. There is generalContinue reading “Caution with drugs and exercise”