A first-hand experience of platelet-rich plasma treatment

Presented by Steph Cantrill Polio Australia Community Programs Manager

Continuing our series on managing fatigue, we look at planning and scheduling tasks to incorporate pacing. Remember - everyone's capacity is different. It's about finding your own balance so that you're alternating activity and rest and not pushing up to (or beyond!) your limit.

Gillian Thomas OAM President of Polio Australia as written an open letter to Prime Minister Scott Morrison.In the wake of the US decision to cease support to the World Health Organisation.

It was a regular morning in the small town of Tikitiki in 1961.

Then 24-year-old Reuben Ngata woke up early to get the cows from the paddock, just as he always did.

But something wasn't right. He could hardly walk.

"I was lying there and I could feel all this tingling in [my left] leg then it started tingling in the other one," he says.

The relationship between fatigue, brain stem damage and low blood pressure links

polio survivors to another bunch of fatigued folk: those with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.

Watch your blood pressure

Dr. DeMayo, I have PPS. In the last few years I have experienced bladder issues. I have urine retention. On a recent CT Scan, It showed pelvic muscle atrophy. Is there a connection with Bladder problems and Polio? Were Pelvic muscles effected by the virus?

Great Question! Unfortunately, there is not a great, short answer. Nevertheless, like most good questions, there is an opportunity to use this as a learning opportunity.

First a few basics…

Questions:

1. What is the natural history of polio infection? (00:24)

2. What is post-polio syndrome? (02:40)

3. What are some less typical symptoms of post-polio? (03:55)

4. How common are later problems from polio? (05:25)