A month on, hand transplant patient can move fingertips

Chennai | Saturday | 17th March, 2018

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We are going to start electrical stimulation — passing low doses of current through electrodes to twitch the muscles: V.

Ramadevi, Plastic Surgery Department, Govt. The blood circulation in his transplanted hands is good, says head of the plastic surgery department V.

Ramadevi. more-inFor the 29-year-old patient who underwent the State’s first double hand transplant, the day begins with a morning walk around his room, and exercises for his hands. The hand transplant department at Stanley was started in 2011, but had received no donations up until last month, when the family of a 37-year-old from Manali consented to donate. For Mr.

Narayanaswamy though, his hospital room is just like home, he says..