Targeted Muscle Reinnervation with biceps / triceps
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- Injury Description, Date, extent, surgical intervention etc: 37 year male from the Netherlands, TBPI in Sept. 1996 with C8TH1 avulsion on my not dominant right arm. Nerve grafts reconstruction from leg in Nov. 1996 didn't help a lot, no hand, wrist, biceps or triceps function, only some sense. Now planning a operation to amputate above the elbow and get a bionic arm (myo electric prosthesis) with a target muscle reinnervation in Vienna around Nov 2015
Targeted Muscle Reinnervation with biceps / triceps
Hi,
I'm planning an operation (and amputation) in Vienna of my paralyzed arm. The surgeon performs a transplantation of my biceps, triceps and a part of my gracillis muscle in my chest, different than a transplantation of the gracillis muscle in the biceps to restore elbow flexion. If it will succeed than I have 4 myo signals to control a prothesis with pattern recognition.
Has anyone experience with that kind of TMR operation? What went good or wrong? I know that in the USA it was invented (by prof. Kuiken?) and in Europe it's not common, a German man was the first person with this kind of operation. In my country (the Netherlands) there is no experience yet with TMR.
Thanks.
I'm planning an operation (and amputation) in Vienna of my paralyzed arm. The surgeon performs a transplantation of my biceps, triceps and a part of my gracillis muscle in my chest, different than a transplantation of the gracillis muscle in the biceps to restore elbow flexion. If it will succeed than I have 4 myo signals to control a prothesis with pattern recognition.
Has anyone experience with that kind of TMR operation? What went good or wrong? I know that in the USA it was invented (by prof. Kuiken?) and in Europe it's not common, a German man was the first person with this kind of operation. In my country (the Netherlands) there is no experience yet with TMR.
Thanks.
