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From: shafer@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov (Mary Shafer)
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Subject: Post Polio Syndrome
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Date: 7 Jul 90 04:59:58 GMT
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Rancho Los Amigos Hospital (RLAH), in Downey, CA, has a very active
post-polio program.  My husband's been very pleased in his dealings
with them.

RLAH is a rehabilitation center for Los Angeles County and is over
100 yrs old.  My allergist did her residency managing iron-lung
patients there in the fifties.

We're especially impressed with their expertise in wheelchair systems.
They've recommended that Ken go to a motorized chair and suggested a
very small, light-weight system that attaches (semi-permanently) to
a conventional chair.  The huge conventional motorized chairs would
really limit his mobility here at NASA Dryden (he's the Senior Staff
Scientist), since it, like many government facilities, has too much
equipment and too many people in too little space.

Mary