2006-11-12 07:00:38 · 3 answers · asked by Maria C 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Medicine
nerves are a non-diving and non-replicating tissue, they probably wouldn't recover at all, much less quickly
2006-11-13 07:46:36 · answer #1 · answered by davidalden98 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends, did the nerves got severed as well? or was it just the blood flow? The viability of muscle without blood flow is about 6 hours, nerves about 4 hours. If the nerve was severed, then it may take up to a month for it to recover, or there's the chance it never recovers fully. The muscles depend on the nerves, so even if they recover much more quickier, they may not function if the nerve is badly damaged.
2006-11-13 12:03:50 · answer #2 · answered by Here_for_you 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
how are you going to regain blood flow into a limb that is no longer there?
do you mean if it was immediately reattached? i think the problem would not be in the blood supply, but rather in the fact that you severed a whole bunch of nerve fibers, which generally do not undergo mitosis (cell division) and therefore are very difficult to regrow.
2006-11-12 15:04:46 · answer #3 · answered by goldenbird26k3 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋