Polio (medically termed Poliomyelitis) is derived from Greek words Polio – meaning grey and myelon – meaning the spinal cord. The disease commonly affects the spinal cord leading to classic ...

Abnormal behaviors of autonomic function due to polio affecting the individual's nervous system can compound the inflammation around the spinal cord that causes neck and back pain. Muscle Aches ...

As polio appears again, decades after it was considered eliminated in the U.S., ... But in 1 in 200-2,000 people with a poliovirus infection, the virus may attack the spinal cord and brain.

The polio virus attacks nerve cells called motor neurons in your spinal cord and brainstem. ... Seriousness of polio infection. If you have had severe polio, you are more likely to get PPS.

When the 415 cases classified in Table 1 as bulbar cases were considered in relation to the presence or absence of concomitant spinal-cord involvement, 218, or 52.5 per cent, were found to be ...

People with spinal muscle atrophy (SMA), an inherited neuromuscular disease, usually experience muscle weakness that impacts movement. New research suggests that electrical spinal cord stimulation ...

Polio, also known as poliomyelitis, ... Others, about one in 25 people, may develop meningitis, which involves swelling of the membranes that cover the brain, spinal cord or both.

The diagnosis of acute poliomyelitis was confirmed by pathological studies, autopsies being performed in the 3 fatal cases. Histologic sections of the spinal cord and medulla revealed lesions ...

Schaffner explained that, in such a case, the mutated polio virus would have moved out of his intestinal tract, traveled to his spinal cord and infected certain cells, resulting in some paralysis ...

In some instances, the virus can infect a person's spinal cord and cause paralysis. Outbreaks of polio in the U.S. in the last 1940s caused more than 35,000 Americans a year to become disabled ...

Before polio vaccines became available in the 1950s, people wary of the disabling disease were afraid to allow their children outside, let alone go to school. As polio appears again ...