VIDEO - Surgeons restore hand function to quadriplegic patient

Surgeons at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have restored some hand function in a quadriplegic patient with a spinal cord injury at the lowest bone in the neck. Instead of operating on the spine injury, the surgeons rerouted working nerves in the arm around the injury site. Following the surgery, and one year of physical therapy, the patient regained the ability to pinch, feed himself and write with assistance.