European Multicentre Study of Human Spinal Cord Injury
Key facts
- Who runs it
- University of Zurich
- Where
- Switzerland1 site in 1 countryChoose a country to see its sites
- Trial code
- Status
- Recruiting
- People taking part
- 8,000 people, planned
- Started
- Apr 2004
- Expected to end
- Dec 2026
- Type of study
- Observational
- Record updated
- 25 September 2026
Who can take part
- Age
- 18 years and older
- Sex
- Women and men
- Healthy volunteers
- Cannot take part
The registry criteria, word for word
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Who can take part
- Single event traumatic or ischemic para- or tetraplegia
- First EMSCI assessment possible within the first 6 weeks after incidence
- Patient capable and willing of giving written informed consent
Who cannot take part
- Pre-known dementia or severe reduction of intelligence, leading to reduced capabilities of cooperation or giving consent
- Peripheral nerve lesions above the level of lesion (i.e. plexus brachialis impairment)
- Nontraumatic para- or tetraplegia (i.e. discusprolaps, tumor, AV-malformation, myelitis) excl. single event ischemic incidences
- Pre-known polyneuropathy
- Severe craniocerebral injury
This trial has no sites in United States.
It has sites in one country. Choose a country to see its sites.
About the trial
What the trial wants to find out
Today there is accumulating evidence from animal experiments that regeneration can be induced after a spinal cord injury (SCI). Consequently in the near future, new therapeutic approaches to induce some regeneration will be included in the treatment of patients with SCI. The aim of this proposal is to provide the required clinical basis for the implementation of novel interventional therapies. The establishment of combined clinical, functional and neurophysiological measures for a qualitative and quantitative assessment of spinal cord function in patients with SCI at different stages during rehabilitation represents a basic requirement to monitor any significant effect of a new treatment. Therefore, several European Paraplegic Centres involved in the rehabilitation of acute traumatic SCI patients build up a close collaboration for standardised assessment. The aim is to get knowledge about the natural recovery after spinal cord lesion in a larger population of patients in the sense of a historical control group and to bring new standardised assessment tools to the clinical setting.
Questions to ask the study team
- How often do I need to come in, and for how long each time?
- Are travel costs paid?
- Can I keep my own doctor?
- What happens if I want to stop?
Contact the study team: see the registry record → Contacts and Locations
Print a page for my doctorData and sources
- Registry record
- Listed on ClinicalTrials.gov.
- Official title
- European Multicentre Study of Human SCI
- Publications
- Record updated
- 25 September 2026