Child Paralyzed From 'Polio-Like' Illness AFM Able to Walk Again After Nerve Transfer Surgery

By KASSIDY VAVRA

While the “polio-like” illness Acute Flaccid Myelitis is considered untreatable and often leaves children paralyzed, one boy regained the ability to walk with a nerve transfer surgery from a St. Louis doctor.

Dr. Amy Moore of Washington University performed a life-changing nerve transfer surgery on 8-year-old Brandon Noblitt that gave him the ability to walk again.

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