Immediate and complete restoration of peripheral nerve function after injury is attainable by a combination of surgical and chemical interventions

Despite significant advances in almost every other aspect of medicine, physicians are still unable to restore function after nerve injury with any consistency or reliability. The current standard of care (which involves coaptation of the two ends via epineurial sutures) is largely unchanged from its first description over 400  years ago, and unfortunately leads to a recovery that is at best slow (taking months or years) and partial. Encouragingly, two new conceptual approaches are being developed that separately have been shown to improve outcomes.

Source: Medical Hypotheses - December 12, 2017 Category: Biomedical Science Authors: Peter W. Henderson Source Type: research