A. L. Watkins
Apr 9, 1953
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The New England journal of medicine
Abstract
THE purpose of this study Was to investigate the purported value of betaine and glycocyamine in the treatment of late residual muscular weakness resulting from poliomyelitis.‡ To make the evaluation as objective as possible the strength of the muscles studied was measured by means of a special instrument known as a myodynemeter utilizing a strain gauge with calibrated recording device and standardized test positions that experience in this laboratory had shown to be highly accurate. Method or Study Nine patients, all of them Cooperative adults, who had had poliomyelitis, with residual weakness, one or more years previously were selected. They . . .