The surgery was meant to resurrect the connection between the brain and the hand to allow the man to slowly regain hand function as the nerve establishes new connections and his brain reprograms itself to move the fingers by activating the elbow nerve. “The brain has to be trained to think, ‘OK, I used to bend my elbow with this nerve, and now I use it to pinch,’” said Fox, according to ABC News. “We’re not changing any of the biomechanics; we’re just changing the wiring. So it’s more of a mental game that patients have to play with themselves.” After months of intensive physical therapy, surgeons reported that the man was able to feed himself and even write with some assistance
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