{"id":93270,"date":"2019-07-08T08:43:07","date_gmt":"2019-07-08T15:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/surgery-restores-arm-function-in-some-paralysed-patients-study"},"modified":"2019-07-08T08:43:07","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T15:43:07","slug":"surgery-restores-arm-function-in-some-paralysed-patients-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/surgery-restores-arm-function-in-some-paralysed-patients-study","title":{"rendered":"Surgery restores arm function in some paralysed patients: study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/surgery-restores-arm-function-in-some-paralysed-patients-study.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Surgeons in Australia have managed to restore arm function in paralysed patients, allowing them to feed themselves, use tools and handle electronic devices, according to the results of a groundbreaking study released Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Thirteen <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/young+adults\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">young adults<\/a> who had suffered <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/spinal+injuries\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">spinal injuries<\/a> rendering them tetraplegic underwent several operations and intense physiotherapy in the largest ever application of a technique known as <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/nerve+transfer+surgery\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">nerve transfer surgery<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A team of surgeons succeeded in attaching individual nerves from above the zone of the spinal <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/injury\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">injury<\/a> to nerves below the trauma site. The functioning nerves were then used to stimulate paralysed muscles below the injury zone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surgeons in Australia have managed to restore arm function in paralysed patients, allowing them to feed themselves, use tools and handle electronic devices, according to the results of a groundbreaking study released Friday. Thirteen young adults who had suffered spinal injuries rendering them tetraplegic underwent several operations and intense physiotherapy in the largest ever application [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1694],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-electronics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93270","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}