Plastic surgeon Dr. Paul Cederna, who co-leads the Neuromuscular Lab at the University of Michigan, has spent years working to develop futuristic technology that uses an amputee's nerves to control a prosthetic limb. ⁠ ⁠ He said the technology is not there yet, but he works every day to achieve his goal – to give amputees back the hand or leg they had before their accident and make sure that their prosthetic limb moves as it should. ⁠ ⁠ Working alongside him as an assistant research professor and plastic surgery co-director at the lab is Stephen Kemp, PhD. ⁠ ⁠ "The primary goal of the neuromuscular lab is to get an amputee to play the piano with their prosthetic hand," said Kemp. "The way that we do that is by creating a nerve machine interface. What I mean by that is that the patient's own nerves will control a prosthetic hand, so they'll be able to move the prosthetic hand naturally like a human hand." ⁠ ⁠ Click the 🔗 link in our bio to learn how these plastic surgeons want to use nerve regeneration to make prosthetic limbs move.