Polio Place

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Photographs

Category: 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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