A groundbreaking surgery performed at
the CTO (Orthopaedic Trauma Centre) hospital of the City of
Health in Turin has enabled a 22-year-old motorcyclist to
recover the use of one hand, lost in an accident six months ago.
The young student had suffered a lesion of the brachial plexus,
the reticular complex of spinal nerves that provides the motor
and sensory innervation of part of the chest, shoulder, arm and
also the hand.
By using a nerve root, i.e. a bundle of nerve fibres from the
spinal cord, of the healthy arm plexus, the connection of the
opposite hand was restored.
photo: a file photo of a motorcyclist in Rome
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