“I have what’s called post-polio now, which has made it much tougher to walk with the crutches,” Clark said. “Travel is more difficult for me, but I’m going to continue to do this until ...

Solicitors will carry donation boxes and donors will receive tiny, blue plastic crutch pins. As a salesman for White Star Confectionery Company and avid recreational golfer, Mr. Molner never gave much ...

Within 15 days, polio ravaged her body, partially paralyzing her limbs and weakening her neck. She was moved to the D.T. Watson Home for Crippled Children in Sewickley, Pa., to begin her long and ...

Jodie said: "I often joke she should be in the Guinness World Record Book as the person who has walked on crutches for the longest time! She is a hero and inspiration to everyone who knows her.

A polio attack at infancy has forced Ms Njuguna to move around using crutches. “I was born normal, but unfortunately at eight months, I got a polio attack which weakened my legs.

In the 1950s parents were desperate for a cure—or at least a way to prevent polio. Children endured immense physical pain from heat packs and the stretching exercises of Kenny treatments ...

Before the first vaccine was developed in the 1950s, polio was among the most feared diseases. An explosive 1916 outbreak in New York killed more than 2,000 people and the worst recorded U.S ...