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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — By the time Dr. Jonas Salk's polio vaccine was deemed safe and effective in 1955, it was three years too late for Joe O'Brien. "I was fitted for my first braces, leg braces, and I ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Sharon McKinney was only 6 years old when she began complaining about a fever and a headache. The diagnosis was polio. After spending several months in a hospital in 1948, she ...

FDR contracted polio at the age of 39, which left his legs partially paralyzed. Fearing this would impact his bid for presidency, he came to an agreement with the press: no photos of him walking or ...