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Complications of Poliomyelitis

Complications of polio may include life-long severe muscle weakness, often in the leg, causing the foot to drop and making walking difficult.

Complications of post-polio syndrome often include neuropathies, nerve entrapments, arthritis, scoliosis, osteoporosis and, sometimes, additional atrophy, known as Post-Polio Muscular Atrophy (PPMA).

Sometimes some of the symptoms of polio are reappear in a condition called post-polio syndrome (PPS).