Surgery can prompt sensory nerves to ‘sprout’ fresh connections to spinal cord

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Jamie Seidel, News Corp Australia Network THE quest to repair spinal cord injuries is a medical holy grail. Now, we’re beginning to understand how it could be done. And the fix may already be in our own bodies. A study by Kings College London examined a new surgery technique capable of reconnecting complex sensory neurons to the spinal cord. Specifically, the Frontiers in Neurology study looked at how the spinal cord of a rat went about completing the repair itself…