Dr. Howard A. Rusk; Rehabilitation Expert
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Dr. Howard A. Rusk, 88, credited with introducing rehabilitation techniques for the physically disabled. Rusk first developed the techniques for airmen injured in World War II, and his methods have since become standard medical practice throughout the world. With $1 million donated by Bernard Baruch, he founded what is now the Howard A. Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine in New York City. A specialist in internal medicine, he proposed some of the techniques in a weekly column he wrote for the New York Times from 1946-1969. In New York on Saturday after a stroke.
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