Page from newspaper with story and photos on training spinal injured veterans to walk using body braces and crutches.

Page from newspaper with story and photos on training spinal injured veterans to walk using body braces and crutches.

Spinal injury protocols

Newspaper dated November 15, 1945 reporting on training veterans with spinal cord injuries to walk using body braces and crutches. The article is largely made up of photographs of three veterans. In two photographs a veteran is exercising to increase upper body strength and in the third a veteran is wearing braces while standing with crutches. Main headline is "Science (and Determination) Enables Paraplegics to Walk Again." Secondary headline is "Walking and Working Paraplegics Zestful."

Trent Frayne

The Globe and Mail: Canada's Heritage from 1844, Micromedia Proquest

Carleton University Disability Research Group

11/15/1945

The Globe and Mail

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