Wilma Rudolph: Life with Polio
“Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose… If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday”(“Wilma Rudolph”). Wilma Rudolph was an Olympic athlete in the 1960 and 1966 Olympics. Wilma Rudolph in 1944 at age four was diagnosed with Polio.Wilma Rudolph survived polio for eight long, hard years before overcoming it in 1952. And later in life became a great runner and an amazing inspiration to many.
Moreover polio is a deadly disease that is caused by a highly contagious virus entering the nervous system in the brain or spinal cord causing temporary or permanent paralysis. There are three
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The name of each condition describes the location and severity of the paralyzed muscles. The first type is Spinal paralytic polio. This is the most common type of the three, it is caused by an infection in the spinal cord. It leaves its victims crippled, producing paralysis in the arms and/or legs. The legs are usually affected more than arms. The second type is Respiratory polio. The polio virus attacks the respiratory or chest muscles, making it difficult or impossible for the patient to breathe without help from a breathing machine. This condition is very dangerous, and may result in death in as much as fifty percent of its victims. The a third type is Bulbar polio. The polio virus attacks the nerve cells that are found just above the spinal cord in the region called the “bulb” or brain stem. These nerve cells control the pharynx (throat) and larynx (voice box) muscles. When these areas are affected, the patient may have serious problems breathing, swallowing, and speaking. This is the most dangerous form of polio. Secretions collect in the throat and may block the airway (trachea), which may cause the patient to suffocate (Polio …show more content…
For instance, her family, but especially her mother inspired her. Her mother, Blanche Rudolph made it her mission to make her daughter walk again. Blanche Rudolph was also very big in home remedies. “My mother used to have all these home remedies she would make herself, and I lived on them. She was very big on hot toddies. That was concoction of liquor, corn, sugar and a few things that she would cook on the stove... Another thing my mother was big on making me sweat. She would pile blanket on top of blanket and make me get under them and sweat” (Wilma Rudolph 16). These remedies helped her overcome
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... damaged neurons. (Mayo clinic, 2014). This is called neuroplasticity, the ability for the nerves to compensate for damage caused by some outside force. Because of neuroplasticity physical training works to cure some of the paralysis left by the virus and allows us to walk again after the legs or another appendage is deformed or damaged.
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Wilma Rudolph was the twentieth child out of twenty-two children. When Rudolph was four years old, she was diagnosed with polio. The doctors didn’t expect her to able to walk ever again. There wasn’t much to be done for her because she came from a poor family, her mother was a maid and her father was a railroad porter. Even though the doctors believed that Wilma would never walk again, every week her mother took her on a long bus trip to a hospital so that she could receive physical therapy. The physical therapy didn’t help her, but the doctors suggested massaging and rubbing her legs every day. Her mother taught her older brothers and sisters how to do the rubbing correctly, and each day they rubbed her legs four times a day. By the time she was eight, Wilma could walk while wearing a leg brace. Then she began to play basketball with her brothers while wearing high-tops for support. She easily became able to play basketball with no shoes at all once she was eleven years old. A track coach at her school encouraged her to go out for track, and by her senior year she qualified for the 1956
Wilma Rudolph inspired this world by creating courage. She has inspired different people all over the world. She used courage to get over more than five diseases, including measles, mumps, polio and much more. (Engel, 2014). Polio left her unable to walk, with a brace. She constantly tried to walk, and eventually got over the disease. (Engel, 2014). “It was with great determination and the help of physical therapy that she was able to overcome the disease as well as her resulting physical disabilities.” (“Rudolph,” Bio, 2015). Rudolph gave courage to African Americans all over the country that they can do anything despite their color. (“Wilma Rudolph,” Encyclopedia, 2015). “Now one of the most famous athletes in the world, Wilma Rudolph was greeted at home by a parade that is believed to have been Clarksville’s first biracial event. (“Wilma Rudolph,” Tennessee History, 2010). She inspired women athletes by once being the fastest women in the world. Overall, Wilma Rudolph gave courage to our world by being courageous herself. She inspired African Americans, sickly children, and women.
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