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The Problem With Peripheral Nerve Damage
Axogen is a medical device company that focuses on the area of peripheral nerve damage. The wires that carry signals to let your muscles move or to tell your muscles to move and also to give you feedback about the environment can be damaged in lots of ways. Nerves are cut many times in accessing what you're trying to get to in the surgery, they may be caught when they're trying with a retractor to get space in the surgery They might get compressed. All of those are ways that nerves can get damaged.