A few years ago I had nerve surgery on my shoulder. My nerves died because of an accident skiing. You may ask what the big deal is if your nerves are not working, and that’s what I thought too but that is totally wrong. What happens is the nerves send out electrical signals to tell your muscles to move and work. So when your nerves do not work then your muscles do not either, so my muscle started to die also. So to fix this they took a nerve out of my tricep and placed it into my shoulder to get it working again. The problem that I had with the whole deal is how they test to see if your nerve is working. They use a needle with a cord coming out of it that is attached to a computer. Once they place this needle into your injured area (which really hurts) they move it around and make you flex! This need then reads the electrical signals and shows it on the computer. I think that there should be a device that would be able to detect nerves and their electrical signal kind of like an x-ray detects bone.
Mrs. Backer
9/14/2015 12:49:20 pm
Lane, I like how you took a personal issue and decided to help others with new ideas and technology.
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Pam Hilgenhold
9/17/2015 06:36:20 am
I am amazed that you remembered all the specifics details of your surgery. Truly an amazing miracle!
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sam
9/21/2015 07:53:38 am
wow, I thought regular needles were bad!
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