Surgery Seen to Aid Bladder Control

December 18th, 2006

(AP) -- Needing a wheelchair isn't always the biggest complaint of people left paralyzed by spinal cord injury - it's also the loss of bladder control. On Monday, Michigan doctors began a unique experiment to see if rerouting patients' nerves just might fix that problem.



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