This is an example of the brain's ability to adapt to changes in the body and loss of connections in the brain itself and is not fully understood. This is also why people that loss their vision can have much better hearing months or years later, as their brain adapts to the body's loss of a sense and compensates.
Neuroplasticity, is also referred to as brain plasticity and this occurs when there's a change in the nervous system as a result of a response to a particular stimuli.
In this case, the neural networks that are in the brain will change and the changes can bring about systematic adjustments in the body.
