MOTOR regeneration of the median nerve after transection and repair of the median nerve at the wrist occurs in only about 5 per cent of cases. The thumb is incapable of abduction and opposition wit ...

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 northern Italy said ...

Surgeons at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis successfully used peripheral nerve transfer to bypass a cervical spinal cord injury and restore partial function in both hands in ...

A 71-year-old man who was paralyzed in a 2008 car accident has regained motor function in his hands thanks to Washington University doctors who rewired his nerves to bypass the damaged ones ...

PTS affects the brachial plexus — the network of nerves that sends signals from your spine to your shoulder, arm and hand. PTS occurs when those nerves become inflamed.

The ulnar nerve is a nerve that travels from the wrist to the shoulder. This nerve is mainly responsible for movement of the hand; despite passing through the forearm, it is only responsible for ...

The physicians took healthy nerves from the man's body and used those nerves to bridge the damaged nerves and rewire the man's nervous system. The groundbreaking surgery was performed by surgeons ...

Surgeons in the United States have for the first time restored movement to the previously paralysed hand of a 71-year-old man injured in a car incident by essentially splicing a defunct nerve with ...

Writing in Clinical Anatomy, the former surgeon studied numerous carvings and paintings of the benediction hand gesture, closely examining the possible reasoning for Peter's hand.