Status:
COMPLETED
Improving Hand and Arm Function After Spinal Cord Injury (SCI)
Lead Sponsor:
University of Miami
Collaborating Sponsors:
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Conditions:
Spinal Cord Injury
Eligibility:
All Genders
16-70 years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
The long-term goal of this project is to develop rehabilitation strategies that facilitate optimal restoration of skilled hand use in individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI). The objective of the st...
Detailed Description
Evidence suggests that both intensive, skill-based practice training combined with somatosensory stimulation (MP+SS) and somatosensory stimulation alone (SS) may be associated with functional changes ...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- traumatic spinal cord injury of at least one-year duration
- injury to cervical spinal cord at C7 or higher
- sufficient strength of thenar muscles to generate, at minimum, a visible twitch contraction in at least one thumb
Exclusion
- history of head trauma and/or cognitive deficit
- subject history of stroke, seizures or other intracranial disease
- family history of seizures
- inability to provide informed consent
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
August 1 2007
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
August 1 2013
Estimated Enrollment :
48 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT01143597
Start Date
August 1 2007
End Date
August 1 2013
Last Update
October 10 2013
Active Locations (1)
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The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis
Miami, Florida, United States, 33131