{"id":29293,"date":"2016-08-23T23:46:50","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T06:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/paralyzed-man-regains-hand-movement-thanks-to-first-ever-nerve-transfer-surgery"},"modified":"2017-04-26T13:20:02","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T20:20:02","slug":"paralyzed-man-regains-hand-movement-thanks-to-first-ever-nerve-transfer-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/paralyzed-man-regains-hand-movement-thanks-to-first-ever-nerve-transfer-surgery","title":{"rendered":"Paralyzed Man Regains Hand Movement, Thanks to First-Ever Nerve-Transfer Surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/paralyzed-man-regains-hand-movement-thanks-to-first-ever-nerve-transfer-surgery.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Beginning with a twitch in his fingers about six months ago, a Canadian man has successfully re-animated his paralyzed hand after undergoing a nerve transfer surgery.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ottawacitizen.com\/news\/local-news\/the-rewiring-of-tim-raglin\" target=\"_blank\">Tim<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/ottawacitizen.com\/news\/local-news\/the-rewiring-of-tim-raglin\" target=\"_blank\">Raglin<\/a> regularly dove, headfirst, into the water at his family\u2019s lake house. The 45-year old Canadian man had done so thousands of times without incident. In 2007, though Raglin hit his head on a rock in the shallow water, shattering a vertebra in his cervical spine.<\/p>\n<p>His family pulled him to safety, saving him from drowning. However, for nine years, both his hands and feet were left paralyzed.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/futurism.com\/paralyzed-man-regains-hand-movement-thanks-to-first-ever-nerve-transfer-surgery\/\">http:\/\/futurism.com\/paralyzed-man-regains-hand-movement-than...r-surgery\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beginning with a twitch in his fingers about six months ago, a Canadian man has successfully re-animated his paralyzed hand after undergoing a nerve transfer surgery. Tim Raglin regularly dove, headfirst, into the water at his family\u2019s lake house. The 45-year old Canadian man had done so thousands of times without incident. In 2007, though [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":411,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-habitats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/411"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29293"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56550,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29293\/revisions\/56550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}