Clinical trials: Cervical Spinal Cord Paralysis
Tetraplegia, Asthma
Exhaled Breath Condensate Biomarkers of Inflammation in Individuals With Chronic Cervical Spinal Cord Injury
The purpose of this study is to obtain markers of airway inflammation from the exhaled breath condensate (the moisture in exhaled air) for comparison to blood based markers.
- Trial name
- NCT02235714
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 36 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- James J. Peters Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Cervical Spinal Cord Injury
Combined Therapeutic Air Mixture and Electrical Stimulation to Improve Breathing and Hand Function in Spinal Cord Injury
The goal of this clinical trial is to determine whether people with paralysis due to a spinal cord injury can benefit from breathing short intermittent bouts of air with low oxygen (O2) combined with slightly higher levels of…
- Trial name
- AIHH+tSCS (NCT06101199)
- Testing
- Acute Intermittent Hypercapnic Hypoxia, Transcutaneous spinal cord stimulation
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 4 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Thomas Jefferson University
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), Angina, Stable
Quest to Analyze One Thousand Humans Meditating
This study will be focused on assessing the molecular, physiological, and emotional correlates of an intensive meditation experience in the context of a retreat setting in a large 2000 plus-person cohort comprised of healthy and…
- Conditions
- Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), Angina, Stable, Anxiety, Asthma
- Trial name
- QUANTUM (NCT06583395)
- Testing
- Advanced multi-component meditation practice
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 3,000 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Tobias Moeller-Bertram
Spinal Cord Injuries, Spinal Cord Injury at C5-C7 Level
Brain Plus Spinal Stimulation for Cervical SCI
The goal of this project is to strengthen residual corticospinal tract (CST) connections after partial injury using combined motor cortex and spinal cord stimulation to improve arm and hand function after spinal cord injury…
- Conditions
- Spinal Cord Injuries, Spinal Cord Injury at C5-C7 Level, Tetraplegia/Tetraparesis
- Trial name
- NCT04727866
- Testing
- transcutaneous spinal direct current stimulation (tsDCS) - coronal, transcutaneous spinal direct current stimulation (tsDCS) - caudal, transcutaneous spinal direct current stimulation (tsDCS) - rostral
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 24 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Bronx VA Medical Center
Cervical Spinal Cord Plasticity
Cervical Spinal Cord Associative Plasticity
Associative plasticity has been used to promote functional recovery from conditions affecting movement. Prior work from the Carmel laboratory has shown that paired associative stimulation protocols timed to converge in the…
- Trial name
- NCT07539025
- Testing
- SCAP, MagPro X100, Digitimer DS8R
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 20 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Columbia University
Cervical Spinal Cord Injury, Tetraplegia/Tetraparesis
Spinal Cord Associative Plasticity Study
Spinal cord associative plasticity (SCAP) is a combined cortical and spinal electrical stimulation technique developed to induce recovery of arm and hand function in spinal cord injury.
- Conditions
- Cervical Spinal Cord Injury, Tetraplegia/Tetraparesis, Cervical Myelopathy
- Trial name
- SCAP (NCT05163639)
- Testing
- Non-invasive pairing of cortical and spinal stimulation, Intraoperative pairing of cortical and spinal stimulation, Non-invasive repeated pairing of cortical and spinal stimulation (SCAP)
- Where
- 3 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 92 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Columbia University
Spinal Cord Injury, Spinal Cord Injury Cervical
Neuromodulation After Spinal Cord Injury to Improve Limb Function
The University at Buffalo (UB) Department of Rehabilitation Sciences is looking for adult volunteers with and without spinal cord injuries for a study on hand movement.
- Trial name
- NCT06815601
- Testing
- rTMS, Motor training
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 17 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- State University of New York at Buffalo