13 young adults with tetraplegia are able to feed themselves, hold a drink, brush their teeth, and write as a result of a novel surgical technique which connects functioning nerves with injured nerves ...

A study by Dr. Bo He and co-workers from the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University in China showed that predictors of outcome after the repair of peripheral nerve injuries include age, ...

This week we are going to discuss nerve entrapment in the upper extremity, that is to say the arms. Nerve entrapments are very uncomfortable conditions in which the peripheral nerve innervating the ...

2.1 Tetraplegia is typically caused by cervical spinal cord injuries, with associated complete or incomplete loss of muscle strength in all 4 extremities. The exact symptoms depend on the location and ...

The concern with the cervical herniated disk and the popular whiplash injury as a source of pain in the upper extremity may exclude consideration of a more distal origin of such pain. It is the ...

The nerves severed during the amputation need to be attached to the surrounding muscle tissue to re-establish its neural circuitry and thereby reduce the phantom pain. The results of this study are ...

People with spinal cord injuries often lose some or all their limb function. In most patients, the nerves in their limbs work ...

Doctors at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and College of Medicine are pioneering the use of primary targeted muscle reinnervation (TMR) to prevent or reduce debilitating phantom limb ...

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