NCT05981989Recruiting
Epidural Electrical Stimulation for Stroke Patients - Improve Motor and Sensory Function and Alleviate Pain
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 19 Sept 2025 · Not updated for over 12 months - ask the site whether it is still open
Brief summary (registry, in English)
This study aims to verify whether epidural electrical stimulation (EES) of the cervical spinal cord can activate muscles of the upper limbs in people with hemiplegia following a stroke.
- Status (registry)
- Recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 20 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 1 Aug 2023
- Start date
- 1 Apr 2023
- Primary completion date
- 31 Dec 2026
- Lead sponsor
- Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital
- Diseases
- Stroke
- NCT number
- NCT05981989
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Planned participants: 20
- From 1 Apr 2023 to the primary completion date, 31 Dec 2026
- 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
- Receiving anticoagulant, anti-spasticity or anti-epileptic medications prior to or throughout the duration of the study.
Other illness
- Have Major depressive disorder.
- Had a mental illness within one year or been treated in the past.
- Have significant cognitive impairment (MMSE\<24) or serious disease that could affect the ability to participate in study activities.
- Cardiovascular or musculoskeletal disease or injury that would prevent full participation in physical therapy intervention.
Other
- Pregnancy or breast feeding.
- Unable to read and/or comprehend the consent form.
- Have concerns about this trial and do not sign consent.
- Presence of joint contractures deemed by study clinician/investigator to be too severe to participate in study activities.
Who the study is looking for
- Between 20 and 70 years of age
- First-ever clinical manifest stroke
- Right or left hemiparesis
- Scores higher than 7 and lower than 45 on the Fugl-Meyer scale.
- Expected will undergo spinal cord stimulation surgery.
- Able to comply with procedures and follow up.
- Stable medical condition without cardiopulmonary disease or dysautonomia that would contraindicate participation in upper extremity rehabilitation or testing activities.
Age in the registry: 20 years to 70 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation Hualien Tzu Chi Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Hualien City | Taiwan | Recruiting |
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