Paralyzed Man Regains Hand Function After Breakthrough Nerve Rewiring Procedure

An anonymous reader writes "A 71-year-old man who became paralyzed from the waist down and lost all use of both hands in a 2008 car accident has regained motor function in his fingers after doctors rewired his nerves to bypass the damaged ones in a pioneering surgical procedure, according to a case study published on Tuesday."

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I'm not a doctor

[Anonymous Coward]

Do surgeons not need any kind of approval to do procedures, like drugs need to be tested and approved over like a decade?

It just seems like I've heard of one or two drugs that do something like this every year, for as long as I can remember.