SARASOTA – A 72-year-old, widowed polio survivor whose unorthodox swimming style rated a Jan. 31 story in the Herald-Tribune has been blown away by a community determined to keep her moving. “My mouth ...

SARASOTA – Left leg strapped snugly into an aging brace, spine curved by an exhausted scourge from another era, diminutive Kathi Coleman is among the last of her kind. She is hard to miss as she ...

ANN ARBOR, MI - Liina Paasuke cannot remember a time without leg braces. A polio survivor from a young age, all her memories consist of walking with leg and back braces and crutches. The experience ...

NeLo is a flexible leg brace that uses sensor data to help polio patients -- and people with sports injuries -- lock and unlock their knees when walking. The brace is designed to switch between being ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. OLATHE, Kan. — A Kansas man with polio who’s ...

Erin Olivera didn't know where to turn. It was 2012, and her 1-year-old son, Lucian, had suddenly become paralyzed from the waist down. While he was receiving excellent medical care from his doctors ...