Polio Place

Final Inch, The

Nearly 50 years after a vaccine for Polio was developed in the United States, the Polio virus still finds refuge in some of the world’s most vulnerable places. Into India’s impoverished neighborhoods, The Final Inch follows the massive – and yet highly personalized - mission to eradicate Polio from the planet. One of history’s most feared diseases, now largely forgotten; Polio has become a disease of the world’s poor.

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Frog Breathing

In this 1983 video funded by The Polio Foundation of Alberta, polio survivor Gary McPherson demonstrates glossopharyngeal (frog) breathing. Clarence Dail, MD, at the Los Angeles-based Rancho Los Amigos respiratory center, described his observations in a 1951 article in California Medicine. Patients with very low vital capacity “discovered this method of breathing without help or even suggestion that it was possible. Others learned from them.”

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Geeta Castelino

Short profile of Geeta Castelina, a successful polio survivor living in Mumbai, India, produced by IBN Live. Ms Castelino became a lecturer at the age of 18 and principal at the age of 32 and is pursuing three careers- one as a consulting social psychologist, as an educationist and as a corporate trainer in the field of design and fashion technology.

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Have You Ever Had Polio?

Have You Ever Had Polio? The Stevens Point Rotary Club asks this question with the help of medical professionals. This video developed by the Rotary Club of Stevens Point and the College of Professional Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. Produced by Eva Donohoo, videographer, and Mary Williams, Rotary Club and Idea Associates. 

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