Australian nurse responsible for alternative treatment for polio known as “The Kenny Method”. Elizabeth Kenny is the big winner of this Wednesday October 5th by Google, which shows a new doodle related to her on its homepage. The Sister Kenny Memorial House, celebrating her life’s work, opened on this day in 1997 in Nobby, Queensland.
Born in Warialda, New South Wales in 1880, she grew up in a poor farming community in rural Australia, where she had little formal education but was an avid reader who loved learning about medicine and human anatomy.
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His method has rehabilitated thousands of polio victims around the world and is considered one of the most effective forms of treatment before vaccination. Bruno Gagliassofor example, is one of the celebrities who warned during the election campaign about the importance of the polio vaccine.
Can’t go to medical school at 17 Elizabeth decided to volunteer at a hospital in Guyra. After following nurses and doctors for over a decade, Kenny gained enough practical knowledge to open his own nursing clinic in Queensland’s Darling Downs.
THE KENNY METHOD IN ACTION
In 1911, she encountered the first case of polio, whose standard treatment at the time required patients to remain in casts for months, causing muscle wasting and leaving victims of the disease permanently paralyzed.
Elizabeth Kenny noted that the affected muscles were stiff and not permanently damaged. She then began applying hot, wet compresses to the affected limb and then suggested doing gradual musclestrengthening exercises. With success, the measured community was surprised and the exercises became known as the “Kenny Method”.
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In the 1940s Elizabeth Kenny traveled to America to open rehabilitation centers such as the Sister Kenny Institute in Minneapolis, which has become a worldrenowned center for the treatment of polio.
His alternative method received honorary degrees from Rutgers University and the University of Rochester. The president Franklin D Roosevelt He even invited her over to lunch to discuss his own treatment.
Impressed by the number of polio victims the Kenny Method has rehabilitated, President Harry Truman authorized Elizabeth Kenny to enter the United States without a visa, as she wished, a great honor previously bestowed only on any other nonUS citizen.
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