NCT04750564Recruiting
BreEStim for Motor Recovery in Chronic Stroke With Severe Impairment (Pilot)
BreEStim for Post-Stroke Motor Recovery
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 3 Jun 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
The overall goal is to investigate the effectiveness of a novel intervention - Breathing-controlled electrical stimulation (BreEStim) on finger flexor spasticity reduction and hand function improvement in chronic stroke with severe impairment.
- Status (registry)
- Recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 4 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 10 Feb 2021
- Start date
- Sept 2025
- Primary completion date
- Apr 2027
- Lead sponsor
- The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston
- Diseases
- Stroke
- NCT number
- NCT04750564
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Planned participants: 4
- From Sept 2025 to the primary completion date, Apr 2027
- 1 site in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Prior treatment
- Patients that are currently adjusting tone alternating medications (e.g., baclofen), or
- Patients received botulinum toxin injection to the arm/fingers \<4 months, or phenol injections \< 2 years;
Other illness
- Patients with visual deficit/neglect; hearing or cognitive impairment;
- Patients with history of pulmonary disease (Asthma, chronic obstruction pulmonary disease, COPD);
Other
- Patients with a pacemaker;
- Women who are pregnant.
Who the study is looking for
- has post stroke ≥ 6 months , medically stable;
- Unilateral, single stroke (no restriction on type (ischemic or hemorrhagic) or volume (large or small) of stroke);
- MAS score ≥ 1, i.e., detectable finger flexor hypertonia;
Age in the registry: 18 years to 75 years · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| The University of Texas Health Science Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Houston | United States | Recruiting |
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