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The article also didn't mention how exactly the nerve going from his elbow was made to connect to his hand. It just says that because nerves grow 1mm/day it tak
by kaybe 10y ago
The article also didn't mention how exactly the nerve going from his elbow was made to connect to his hand. It just says that because nerves grow 1mm/day it takes a long time, but how do you make it do that?
And concerning your other point, his situation does look a bit special - feeling and control in some part of the arm but not the other, so there actually is something to reroute. I don't know how common that is, but it doesn't sound too common.
- rincebrain 10y ago"In theory", there's nothing special about the motor nerves in your limbs, so you could induct on something like this to transition being able to control some muscle in your core to a limb, and so on. I'm wondering if this isn't a less drastic version of the way patients with limb transplants regain some degree of control over the limb when their own nerves grow into the foreign limb.