GPS vs. MRI vs. Polio Vaccine - Out of these 3, which is the most important invention? (Semi-Finals)
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I would have picked MRIs, but hospitals in the states make it so cost prohibitive to get one.
The polio vaccine story is more involved than is typically told. The story of sister Elizabeth Kenny has all but forgotten today but she was curing polio patients and was quite popular. Hollywood made a movie about her polio work which was a best seller.
Sister Kenny was hated by the medical establishment at the time. She went against prevailing treatments. She was showing that health care workers were harming patients with their treatment.
So what did sister Kenny do different? Instead of placing polio patients limbs into braces as most health care workers did at the time, she exercised polio patients limbs. Her exercise treatment typically worked, with the polio patient regaining the ability to move around without braces.
Today sister Elizabeth Kenny is known as the founder of physical therapy.
The move about Elizabeth Kenny can be seen here ~
Sister Kenny, The full movie of Polio paralysis treatment
Sadly too, today we have diseases that cause paralysis, diseases that in the past would have been called polio. With better diagnostic technology the diseases go by other names.
Sister Kenny was hated by the medical establishment at the time. She went against prevailing treatments. She was showing that health care workers were harming patients with their treatment.
So what did sister Kenny do different? Instead of placing polio patients limbs into braces as most health care workers did at the time, she exercised polio patients limbs. Her exercise treatment typically worked, with the polio patient regaining the ability to move around without braces.
Today sister Elizabeth Kenny is known as the founder of physical therapy.
The move about Elizabeth Kenny can be seen here ~
Sister Kenny, The full movie of Polio paralysis treatment
Sadly too, today we have diseases that cause paralysis, diseases that in the past would have been called polio. With better diagnostic technology the diseases go by other names.
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