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NCT03483766: SCI

Robotic Rehabilitation for Spinal Cord Injury

Completed NA Last updated 11 May 2023
What this trial tests

NA trial testing Robotic Functional Rehabilitation system in Spinal Cord Injury in 5 participants. Completed in 31 May 2020.

Timeline
1 September 2017
Primary endpoint
31 May 2020
31 May 2020

Quick facts

Lead sponsorThe University of Hong Kong
PhaseNA
StatusCompleted
Study typeINTERVENTIONAL
Allocationnon randomized
Designsingle group
Maskingsingle
Primary purposehealth services research
Enrollment5
Start date1 September 2017
Primary completion31 May 2020
Estimated completion31 May 2020
Sites1 location across Hong Kong

Drugs / interventions tested

Conditions studied

Sponsor

The University of Hong Kong

Who can join

18 and older, any sex, with Spinal Cord Injury. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

Individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI) have significant functional loss and poor quality of life. Individuals with cervical SCI are suffering much worse sickness within the SCI population. Tetraplegia resulting from cervical SCI bring a formidable emotional, physical, and financial burden in our society. Hand function is especially important to people with tetraplegia. Hand function is associated with independence in many activities, and impairments in upper extremity function can compound difficulties in many other areas, such as bowel and bladder management. Thus, it is not surprising that restoring hand function was found to be a priority for individuals with tetraplegia. Nowadays, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) plays an essential role in the diagnosis of SCI and helps to monitor disease progression and efficacy of therapies. Advanced MRI techniques, such as diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) and functional MRI (fMRI), have shown the potential to improve the understanding of human spinal cord in healthy and pathological condition, and serve as imaging biomarkers to characterize damage degree, monitor the response to treatment, and predict the outcome of intervention. Meanwhile, multi-channel EMG (Electromyography) recordings can provide a mapping of neuromuscular activities from an electrode-array. The application of robotics in upper extremity function restoration of SCI patients has been started to help SCI patients to recovery upper extremity function. Combined DTI and fMRI to monitor the recovery of upper extremity function of SCI patients, this project will provide a tailored-made EMG driven soft-robotic hand prosthesis for tetraplegia individuals. We will provide the individuals with neuromuscular rehabilitation to preserve the residual function and to enhance the functional recovery. The eventual goal is to further design a useful robotic hand for regaining partial daily function to improve the quality of life for those individuals with tetraplegia.

Publications & conference data

No peer-reviewed publications indexed yet for this trial. Completed trials usually publish results within 12-18 months.

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