A man may regain the use of his hand, left paralysed by a severe road accident, thanks to a pioneering nerve transfer operation from his partly amputated leg, doctors in northern Italy said ...

US News Italian man may regain use of hand after breakthrough nerve transfer from amputated leg By Reuters Published Dec. 28, 2023, 6:35 a.m. ET ...

He gave a series of simple clinical questions about the three nerves that run the hand (median, radial and ulnar nerves) to 20 junior doctors. They could get any mark between 0 and 10.

A man may regain the use of his hand, left paralysed by a severe road accident, thanks to a pioneering nerve transfer operation from his partly amputated leg, doctors in northern Italy said.

Because the part of the sciatic nerve that controlled his left foot was no longer needed, it could be transferred to the shoulder area in the operation carried out on Dec. 21, potentially restoring ...