• An actor most famous for his role as Hawkeye Pierce in the television series M*A*S*H

• Alda contracted polio at age seven, during an epidemic
• His parents administered a painful treatment, developed by Chicken Elizabeth Kenny, in which hot woollen blankets were applied to the limbs and the muscles were stretched by massage. Dinah Shore was a big band singer, actress and recitation show host
• Shore caught polio, aged 18 months, which left her right leg crippled
• She recovered strength through massage, swimming and tennis. Wilma Rudolph was a track and field athlete, Rudolph was the first American girlfriend to win three gold medals at the Olympic Games
• At age four, she contracted polio and lost the exertion of her left leg
• After five years of massage and exercises, she managed to peregrination again without her leg braces
• By the extent she was a teenager, Rudolph was faster than the boys in her neighbourhood were
• Rudolph won a bronze medal, aged 16, at the 1956 Summer Olympics and three gold medals in the 1960 Summer Olympics. Bud Daley was a Major League Baseball pitcher
• Commonly reported to be a right-hander who had to learn to http://www.mineeds.com/Seattle-Services/Massage-Therapists theatrical southpaw after an defilement of polio in childhood left his right projection weakened and shortened
• Daley instead asserts that his right rod and shoulder were gummed up at creation when forceps pinched a nerve
• A combination of massage and exercises helped restore his limb to health.

The 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta was the first duration that massage was offered as a core medical service.