postpoliomyelitis muscular atrophy

postpoliomyelitis muscular atrophy (PPMA)

[-pō′lē- ōmī′əlī′tis]

Etymology: L, post, after; Gk, polios, gray, myelos, marrow, itis, inflammation; L, musculus + Gk, a, not, trophe, nourishment

a recurrence of muscular weakness and other neuromuscular symptoms in people who recovered from acute paralytic polio many years earlier. The condition may or may not affect the same muscles that were damaged in the earlier polio attack.

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Patient discussion about postpoliomyelitis muscular atrophy.

Q. Help for/with post-polio problems

A. Clemon -you'll have to be more specific on what kind of help do you ask for. you seek info? seek other people suffering from post-polio? what?
all i can do is give you a good link about it with some info..hope that what you look for:
http://www.post-polio.org/edu/pabout.html