Post-Polio Syndrome: A New Challenge for the Survivors of Polio (CD ROM, 1997)

From the Post-Polio Task Force. Provides information adapted from a program for physicians and patients about post-polio syndrome. Topics include the physiologic mechanisms that have been proposed to explain the emergence of post-polio syndrome (PPS) in polio survivors, how PPS can be distinguished form other diseases and how it is currently treated. Contributors include Dr. Daria Trojan and Dr. Neil Cashman.

The CD was distributed to physicians through post-polio clinics, Neurology and Physiatry training programs. The CD-ROM was developed through an unrestricted educational grant from ICN Pharmaceuticals, Inc.