Nerves

Health & Medicine

Reanimating hand movement after spinal cord injury

A study by the University of Melbourne and Austin Health has found that nerve transfer surgery for people suffering tetraplegia after a traumatic spinal cord injury can improve independence

Health & Medicine

Growing nerves to restore erectile function

Research is showing that a new microsurgery procedure to regrow nerves to the penis severed during a prostatectomy can successfully restore a man’s ability to have an erection

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