{"id":339,"date":"2021-06-29T12:42:02","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T12:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/poliosurvivorsnetwork.org.uk\/new\/?page_id=339"},"modified":"2024-04-25T12:58:34","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T11:58:34","slug":"my-polio-life","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/poliosurvivorsnetwork.org.uk\/new\/my-polio-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Helpful Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Helpful Resources<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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My Polio Life <\/strong><\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A self-assessment tool to assist you with collating information on your life as a polio survivor. To see how useful this can be please see sample answers<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Preparing For Your Appointment<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

To assist polio survivors when attending appointments with healthcare professionals<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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What You Need to Know About My Condition<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A tool to help inform anyone involved in a polio survivor’s care about how post-polio syndrome is affecting their life<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The Journey For a Diagnosis<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Downloadable powerpoint presentation of a polio survivors journey to get a diagnosis, especially useful for healthcare professionals.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Post Polio Matters Newsletters<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Newsletters since 1996 covering many issues affecting polio survivors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Respiratory Issue<\/strong><\/a> Volume 5, issue 9, 28 pages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Special double-sized 100th Issue<\/strong><\/a> Volume 9, issue 4, 40 pages.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The following publications are authored by Polio Survivors Network or reproduced with permission:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What you should know about your Medications<\/strong> <\/a>– A guide for polio survivors by J M Walker Ph.D., PT and A M Whelan, Phar. D<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You Are Going to Have Surgery<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0– A guide for polio survivors by J M Walker Ph.D., PT<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Polio Patients and Surgery<\/a> – Information for health staff<\/strong> \u00a9PTU The Danish Society of Polio and Traffic Victims by Surgeon L Kay, MD<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Polio Survivors As Patients<\/a> – Guide for emergency care & surgical health workers<\/strong> by J M Walker Ph.D., PT., C McGowan & G Vardy<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PPS patient.co.uk<\/a><\/strong> – Article written by doctors for doctors <\/strong>by Dr C Tidy<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you had Polio<\/a><\/strong> – Leaflet by Polio Survivors Network<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Medic Alert Card<\/a><\/strong> – Printable on Avery C32011<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Helpful Resources My Polio Life A self-assessment tool to assist you with collating information on your life as a polio survivor. To see how useful this can be please see sample answers Preparing For Your Appointment To assist polio survivors when attending appointments with healthcare professionals What You Need to Know About My Condition A tool […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-339","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poliosurvivorsnetwork.org.uk\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poliosurvivorsnetwork.org.uk\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poliosurvivorsnetwork.org.uk\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poliosurvivorsnetwork.org.uk\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poliosurvivorsnetwork.org.uk\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/poliosurvivorsnetwork.org.uk\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1376,"href":"https:\/\/poliosurvivorsnetwork.org.uk\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/339\/revisions\/1376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poliosurvivorsnetwork.org.uk\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}