When 8-year-old Brandon Noblitt became wheelchair bound in 2016 due to acute flaccid myelitis, his options seemed limited, but Amy Moore, MD, plastic and reconstructive surgeon at St. Louis-based ...

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 ...

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Spastic limb paralysis due to injury to a cerebral hemisphere can cause long-term disability. We investigated the effect of grafting the contralateral C7 nerve from the nonparalyzed side to the ...

For patients undergoing nerve transfer surgery for facial palsy, Botox injections can improve facial symmetry by reducing overactivity of the muscles on the unaffected side, suggests a study in the ...

An inside look at Cole’s nerve transfer surgery and the journey to regain strength in his triceps.

A "fine-tuned" artificial intelligence (AI) tool shows promise for objective evaluation of patients with facial palsy, reports an experimental study in the June issue of Plastic and Reconstructive ...

An Italian man may regain the use of his paralysed hand after having surgery at a hospital in Turin that used nerves from his partly amputated leg. Marcello Gaviglio, a 55-year-old healthcare worker, ...

The patient says he is optimistic about his long road to recovery and trusted the doctors with their new surgery. An Italian man may regain use of hand after breakthrough nerve transfer from amputated ...