Post-polio syndrome is a condition characterized by increased muscle weakness, atrophy, fatigue and pain developing several years after the acute polio event. We describe a 52-year-old patient who experienced post-polio syndrome; he had contracted acute paralytic poliomyelitis at 12 months of age, shortly after the third dose of Salk polio vaccine.
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science
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14%
Nursing and Health Professions
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14%
Physics and Astronomy
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14%
Medicine and Dentistry
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Unknown
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Attention Score in Context
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 16. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 29 September 2026.
All research outputs
#2,941,659
of 34,435,279 outputs
Outputs from JRSM Open
#37
of 242 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#28,522
of 371,790 outputs
Outputs of similar age from JRSM Open
#5
of 9 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,435,279 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 91st percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 242 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 25.9. This one has done well, scoring higher than 84% of its peers.
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