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When a nerve is cut and then reconnects to the same or similar muscles, the body can relearn how to use those muscles in the right order again.

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Patterns of reinnervation and motor unit recruitment in human hand muscles after complete ulnar and median nerve section and resuture.

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1987 Mar

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Patterns of reinnervation and motor unit recruitment in human hand muscles after complete ulnar and median nerve section and resuture.

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DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.50.3.259

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