Editorial: A note on the growing field of nerve-muscle rehabilitation

✍ Scribed by Nahum, Alan M.

• Publisher: Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
• Year: 1978
• Weight: 70 KB
• Volume: 1
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0148-6403
• DOI: 10.1002/hed.2890010202

✦ Synopsis

Recent publications in nerve-muscle physiology call attention to what we predict will be a burgeoning interest in this area in relation to rehabilitation of the patient with disordered motor functions in the head and neck. As is often the case, studies of a fundamental nature in relatively simple biologic systems are paralleled by more ambitious clinical studies in humans. What was initially an interest in the dilemma of primary-versus secondary-nerve anastomosis and associated variables, such as timing and surgical technique, has broadened to what may be an infinite variety of sophisticated physiologic techniques, including freenerve grafting, combinations of free-muscle and nerve-muscle grafts, nerve implantation, muscle transposition, and cross-nerve grafting, to mention but a few. It is reasonable to conclude that we have just tapped the surface of an exciting but complex area of nerve-muscle physiology.