Woman with the golden arm that points to a surgical breakthrough

A young woman who lost her arm in a motorbike accident has undergone a pioneering surgical technique involving the rerouting of nerves which allows her to feel she is moving her artificial limb with merely the power of thought.

Claudia Mitchell is one of only four people in the United States to have undergone the procedure, but the results will give hope to many who have lost a limb. "I just think about moving my hand and elbow and they move," she told her doctors.