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Center for Brachial Plexus and Traumatic Nerve Injury

Study Finds Long Nerve Grafts Restore Function in Patients with Brachial Plexus Injury
HSS – March 22, 2013
A study by researchers at Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) challenges a widely held belief that long nerve grafts do poorly in adults with an axillary nerve injury. Investigators found that the outcomes of long nerve grafts were comparable to those of modern nerve transfers....
New center helps heal shoulder nerve damage
WABC-TV – August 10, 2012
Injuries to the nerves in the brachial plexus are sort of the stepchildren of neurosurgeons, neurologists and orthopedic surgeons.

Now, Hospital for Special Surgery in Manhattan has created a center devoted to helping these patients....
JAAOS Study Highlights Success of Nerve Transfer Surgery
HSS – August 1, 2012
A study in the August issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (JAAOS) by Hospital for Special Surgery researchers aims to raise awareness of this type of surgery among health care providers. In recent years, great strides have been made in nerve transfer surgery, allowing many patients with a nerve injury in their upper extremity to have a remarkable recovery and improved functional outcomes....
Long Island man can ride the waves again after horrible motorcycle accident thanks to doctors at Manhattan's Hospital for Special Surgery
New York Daily News – July 17, 2012
But while broken bones in his leg and hand healed in the months after the accident, his arm deteriorated. His worried mom looked to the Internet for answers and found Manhattan’s Hospital for Special Surgery — which is ranked No. 1 in the country for orthopedics....
New Outcome Measurement Tool Could Improve Arm Surgery for Devastating Nerve Injury
OrthoSuperSite – May 20, 2011
Investigators with Hospital for Special Surgery in New York have developed a novel tool to measure outcomes in brachial plexus surgery....
New Tool to Measure Outcomes Could Help Improve Arm Surgery for Devastating Nerve Injury
HSS – May 20, 2011
The way that clinicians report outcomes of surgery for a traumatic nerve injury involving the arm is not standardized, and it is thus difficult to compare the efficacy of different surgical treatments, according to a study by researchers at Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) in New York. In a second HSS study, investigators say they have developed a tool to measure outcomes that they hope can be refined and used worldwide....
Pioneering Nerve Surgery for Motorbike Crash Lawyer
The Royal Gazette, Bermuda – February 12, 2010
One of Bermuda's top lawyers is to undergo "cutting edge" surgery in the US to restore the use of his left arm after it was paralysed in a bike accident....