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Your nerves are responsible for making your muscles move. Blood only keeps them alive, and it takes quite a while for lack of blood to actually matter. A rule for tourniquets in medicine is 4 hours if you want to keep your limb without permanent damage.
A good indicator if blood flow was actually cut off is if your limb is extremely pale (within just 1 or 2 minutes) or later goes blue. But if your nerves are unblocked, you can still move your limb for quite a while even without blood flow. Usually though, if blood is cut off, nerves also are.