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He needs around five months of post-operative care to see whether the move is successful

A man may regain the use of his hand, left paralyzed by a severe road accident, thanks to a pioneering nerve transfer operation from his partly amputated leg, doctors in...

A man may regain the use of his hand, left paralysed by a severe road accident, thanks to a pioneering nerve transfer operation from his partly amputated leg, doctors in northern Italy said. Surgeons at Turin City Hospital (CTO) transferred part of the man's sciatic nerve, which controlled the movement of his amputated foot, to his brachial plexus, the network of nerves that connect the spinal cord to the shoulder, arm and hand. "It's the first time that someone transfers a component of the sciatic nerve to the brachial plexus", Paolo Titolo, one of the surgeons who perfo...

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — The WVU Medicine Children’s Neuroscience Center (CNC) is opening a Pediatric Brachial Plexus and Peripheral Nerve Clinic in October.

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — The WVU Medicine Children’s Neuroscience Center (CNC) is opening a Pediatric Brachial Plexus and Peripheral Nerve Clinic in October.