Polio Place

A service of Post-Polio Health International

Photographs

 

   
 

Practicing walking with new braces in the DRC (Stand Proud)

 

   
 

Personal Energy Transportation (PET®), made in Columbia, Missouri, USA

 

   
 

Support from guitar player foot rest

 

   
 

Aquarium tubing as a mouth piece hooked to a ventilator

 

   
 

Example of a nasal mask interface


 
     
 

Adjustable chin crutch

 

 
     
     
 

Crutch carriers

 
 
     
     
 

Hand control options

 

 

     
 

Wheelchair-accessible stovetop

 

 

     
 

Umbrella designed to see the Queen ideal for those in a wheelchair 

   
     
 

Bracing and shoe combination

   
     
 

Wheelchair to access water for swimming competition

 

 
     
 

Polio survivor, who uses a vent at night, demonstrating her daily use of an ambu-bag to help keep her chest wall flexible to assist with breathing.

   
     
 

Oven cart with hook for sliding cookware easily in and out of oven.

Device used by polio survivor to rest.

 

 

 

 

 
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