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Show Kenny Therapist Highly-Trained -Aide to Doctor in Polio Cases MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. Be-I Be-I rause acute polio patients are very sick people who require regular care, in addition to the special techniques tech-niques of the Kenny treatment, the Kenny Therapist is primarily a highly-skilled assistant to the physician. phy-sician. . The Sister Jr -.' Elizabeth Kenny ?lmd? Foundation care- OubbwQ! istered nurses tl J and physical Therapists. Under scholarship arrangements, candidates candi-dates are trained at Elizabeth Kenny Institute in Minneapolis, the Foundation's international training center. Students serve through two periods pe-riods o polio incidence during their courses, which include classroom class-room instruction and work with victims of the disease. Before re ceiving a Kenny certificate, tt3 trainee is given opportunity to. demonstrate ability to manage polio cases from admission to final discharge. A corps of over 100 Kenny Therapists already has been trained to administer the lull Kenny treatment as originated, by. the late Sister Elizabeth Kenny, Australian nurse. Annual public appeals provide funds that make it possible for the. Kenny Foundation to train mor urgently-needed Kenny Therapists, and to carry on other phases of Its program. -These include sponsorship sponsor-ship of research and medical -seminars. As the Kenny Foundation train additional Kenny Therapists, so, too, will benefits to polio victims multiply. The Kenny method is generally accepted as the basis for the best treatment offered polio patients anywhere in the world. |