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Polio, or poliomyelitis, can lead to paralysis in individuals, particularly affecting the legs. Notable figures who experienced leg paralysis due to polio include President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who contracted the disease in 1921, and renowned physicist Stephen Hawking, who was diagnosed with a rare form of motor neuron disease that caused similar symptoms. Many survivors of polio also faced varying degrees of leg paralysis as a result of the viral infection.
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How do you make your legs the slimmest legs ever?
if you have polio they are thin or you can shave them
What body part does bulbar polio attack?
your legs
What is the medical condition polio?
Polio is a disease caused by the poliovirus. In its most severe form polio causes paralysis of the muscles of the legs, arms, and respiratory system.
What was president roosevelt handicap?
At age 39 he contracted polio which left him with weak legs and unable to walk.
What disease left Franklin Delano Roosevelt's legs paralyzed?
Polio
Who served his whole presidency without the use of his legs?
President Franklin Roosevelt. He had polio
What is Franklin D. Roosevelt handicap?
His legs were paralyzed due to a polio attack when he was a young man.
When FDR was diagnosed with polio?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt knew he had polio because he had a fever and was very ill. Soon after, he had the inability to make his legs move. He was paralyzed from the waist down. He could only stand with help. He needed braces on his legs to make speeches at the podium.
Why Franklin D. Roosevelt on the weelchair?
Franklin Roosevelt had an illness called Polio, which restricted the use of his legs.
How come Franklin Delano Roosevelt couldn't walk anymore?
He contracted polio in 1921 and his legs were paralyzed.
What are the characteristics of spinal polio?
This type produces the classical image of a person whose legs have been paralyzed
Why did children wear irons on their legs when they were children?
It would be because they had weak or malformed legs, often caused by rickets (lack of vitamin D) or polio (infectious disease).
