why is a common side effect of polio, one leg shorter than the other
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Doctor Yu
2007-11-8 19:08:44
Answers:
The polio virus affects nerve called the sciatic nerve. This nerve innfervates the muscles of the hamstrings, leg and feet. So when this nerve is paralysed, all the muscles it controls atrophy. This is because, for a muscle to not atrophy, it needs to receive tonic impulses from the nerve. If not, it will atrophy.
IT sometimes damages hip bones causing inflamation and shorteing of femur and hence THE LIMP
Polio causes paralysis and atrophy of muscles affecting our body or a part of our body to stop development or growth.
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