and surgically repaired to regenerate and provide function/feeling back into the hand. would the regenerating nerve maintain its intergrity to pick up where the original nerve signals left off?
2006-09-23 02:11:07 · 3 answers · asked by Fred K 3 in Health ➔ General Health Care ➔ Injuries
Not a doctor or neurologist, but I can tell you it depends on a few different things... if the nerve was cleanly cut, there's a better chance the surgeons were able to line up the nerve sheath during the repair, so the nerve has a clear path to follow to it's destination. If the injury involved a lot of trauma or stripping to the area, it could complicate things a bit.
Either way, it will take a long time to regain feeling or function - nerve grows slowly. Care for the fingers and wrist in the meantime by using appropriate splinting and maintaining full range at all joints.
2006-09-23 02:25:21 · answer #1 · answered by RM 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The healing process is very individual and it is very difficult to make specific predictions, even for your neurosurgeon - let alone for a remote observer.
The effectiveness of healing depends on a lot of factors including the time to repair, the gap between the severed ends, the manner of the injury and many other factors.
It sounds lilke you had an end to end repair which has the best prognosis. The pins and needles sensation will move towards the hand as the nerve stump grows out and hopefully will end up absent. The hope would be that all muscle function would be recovered but predicting the likelihood of this is not possible.
I'm afraid I can't really give you much more info. The procedures and management are usually carried out by specialist plastic surgeons and neurosurgeons. The clinical rating scales developed for analysing this are also very subjective.
I'm afraid - as is the case with all medicine - the person best placed to judge is the doctor managing your care. Physiotherapy keeps remaining muscles activity and promotes their reinnervation and is obviously to be strongly encourage.
Hope this helps.
2006-09-23 17:16:57 · answer #2 · answered by the last ninja 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sometimes but not all the time unfortunately.
2006-09-23 10:02:18 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋