Physical Therapy For Polio-Like Disease In Kids Helps Them Regain Nerve Function

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — For four year-old Camden Carr it started with a common sinus infection.
It quickly turned into something worse.
“He couldn’t move his right arm. He said, ‘Daddy, I can’t scratch my nose,’ and by the time we got to UVA, which is an hour and a half drive, he was completely paralyzed,” said his father, Christopher Carr.
It’s called acute-flaccid myelitis, or AFM. Symptoms are sudden arm or leg weakness, difficulty moving facial muscl