Electrical stimulation of spinal nerve roots to ease spasticity in children with cerebral palsy
Tests electrical stimulation of spinal nerve roots for spasticity in children with cerebral palsy.
Key facts
- Who runs it
- Martin Piazza
- Where
- Pittsburgh, United StatesSee the site
- Trial code
- Registry title
- Dorsal Root Electrical Stimulation in Children With Cerebral Palsy
- Status
- Recruiting
- People taking part
- 15 people, planned
- Started
- 16 Jul 2026
- Expected to end
- Dec 2029
- Type of study
- Interventional
- Treatments tested
- Constant Current Stimulator
- Cadwell Guardian System
- Record updated
- 11 August 2026
Who can take part
AI summary
From the trial's eligibility criteria. Machine-read from the registry text on this page, so it can be wrong. The registry text below and the trial team decide who can take part.
The trial is looking for children with cerebral palsy and muscle stiffness (spasticity) who need a spine nerve surgery called SDR (selective dorsal rhizotomy). It tests whether electrical stimulation of nerve roots can reduce spasticity.
- Age
- 3 to 14 years
- Sex
- All sexes
- Disease stage
- Cerebral palsy with spasticity. The movement disorders team must decide the child needs an SDR.
Main reasons for not taking part
- Children whose insurance coverage for their standard surgery would change because of joining the study cannot join.
The registry criteria, word for word
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Who can take part
- Children ages 3 to 14
- Diagnosis of Cerebral Palsy
- Require an SDR as determined by the multidisciplinary movement disorders team
- Confirmation that subjects' terms of insurance coverage for their standard of care procedure will not be altered by study enrollment
Who cannot take part
- No exclusion criteria
Check if you might fit
Answer for yourself. This is not a decision: only the study team can say whether you can take part.
- Are you between 3 and 14 years old?
Where in United States
- UPMC Children's Hospital of PittsburghPittsburgh, United StatesContact: Bailey G McDonald, BSTaking people
About the trial
What the trial wants to find out
The goal of this clinical trial is to evaluate whether dorsal root electrical stimulation could reduce spasticity in children with cerebral palsy (CP).
The group in the trial
- Cerebral Palsy GroupTreatment being tested
The investigators will use the DS8R to directly deliver electrical stimulation with hook electrodes to the dorsal roots while testing the spasticity of individual dorsal roots.
Treatment: Constant Current Stimulator and Cadwell Guardian System
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
- Dorsal Root Electrical Stimulation to Suppress Spastic Muscle Activation in Children With Cerebral Palsy
- Plain-language title
- Electrical stimulation of spinal nerve roots to ease spasticity in children with cerebral palsyGenerated from the registry record. The registry title is the official one.
- AI summary
- From the trial's eligibility criteria. Read by machine on 14 November 2026.
- Fit questions
- Built from NCT07715006, who can take part
- Record updated
- 11 August 2026