Post-Polio Health, Volume 30, Number 3, Summer 2014. Dr. Rhoda Olkin is a Distinguished Professor of Clinical Psychology at the California School of Professional Psychology in San Francisco, as well as Executive Director of the Institute on Disability and Health Psychology. She is a polio survivor and single mother of two grown children. Dr. Stephanie T. Machell is a psychologist in …
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Imperative to Fight Ableism
Karen Hagrup I am disabled and proud. I have a doctorate and two daughters. I live in a nice condo with my partner. I’m retired and volunteer regularly in my community. People come to me for help. I rarely worry anymore about others’ attitudes toward my impairment; they’ve probably got it wrong anyway. Some might say I’ve overcome my disability. …
Margaret Pfrommer and My Career
Allen I. Goldberg, MD, MBA, Master FCCP, Illinois BEFORE MEETING MARGARET PFROMMER I need to go back to my medical school days at Downstate in Brooklyn. In 1967, I was given an opportunity by my medical school and the French Government to visit France. There, my patron was Pr. Maurice CARA, a world pioneer of intensive care medicine, mobile intensive …
What Does Future Holds for Young Polio Survivor
Post-Polio Health, Volume 31, Number 2, Spring 2015. The following question has come to Post-Polio Health International a number of times via phone, email and letter. We asked our regular Post-Polio Health columnists Frederick M. Maynard, MD; Rhoda Olkin, PhD; and Stephanie Machell, PsyD, to comment on it for our readers. QUESTION: I am dating a woman who had polio, but …
Feeling Like a Failure
Post-Polio Health, (Volume 31, Number 3) Summer 2015 Dr. Rhoda Olkin is a Distinguished Professor of Clinical Psychology at the California School of Professional Psychology in San Francisco, as well as the Executive Director of the Institute on Disability and Health Psychology. She is a polio survivor and single mother of two grown children. QUESTION: I worked so hard to walk …
Anxiety from Past Hospital Treatment
Post-Polio Health, (Volume 31, Number 3) Summer 2015 QUESTION: Sixty years later I still live daily with anxiety stemming from hospital treatment, not abusive but certainly traumatic for a child. Do you have suggestions on how I can reduce the stress of this anxiety? Dr. Stephanie T. Machell is a psychologist in independent practice in the Greater Boston area and …
Facial Involvement and PPS
Post-Polio Health, (Volume 31, Number 3), Summer 2015 Question: What are the symptoms in patients with post-polio syndrome with facial involvement? I am a PT with facial nerve involvement due to polio. Response from Dr. Fred Maynard: Regarding facial nerve involvement after poliomyelitis: It is not common but also not rare. I have seen well over a dozen patients with significant one-sided facial …
Cold Legs
Post-Polio Health, (Volume 31, Number 3), Summer 2015 Question: I had non-paralytic polio in 1949 when I was 2. I now wear two leg braces; one on my polio leg for drop foot and the other one on my left leg because I started dragging that foot. My right leg is always very cold to the touch even though it never feels …
Bullying on Internet
Post-Polio Health, Volume 31, Number 4, Fall 2015 Dr. Stephanie T. Machell is a psychologist in independent practice in the Greater Boston area and consultant to the International Rehabilitation Center for Polio, Spaulding-Framingham Outpatient Center, Framingham, Massachusetts. Her father was a polio survivor. QUESTION: I participate in a Facebook group for polio survivors. I want to contribute honestly, but many times …
Getting “Creepy” on the Internet
Post-Polio Health, Volume 31, Number 4, Fall 2015 Dr. Rhoda Olkin is a Distinguished Professor of Clinical Psychology at the California School of Professional Psychology in San Francisco, as well as the Executive Director of the Institute on Disability and Health Psychology. She is a polio survivor and single mother of two grown children. QUESTION: I see people on Facebook and other …