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NCT04369235
Transcranial Electrical Stimulation With Special Waveform for Upper Extremity Rehabilitation for Patients With Stroke
NA trial testing tCES in Stroke in 24 participants. Completed in 30 April 2020.
31 January 2020
Quick facts
| Lead sponsor | Taipei Medical University |
|---|---|
| Phase | NA |
| Status | Completed |
| Study type | INTERVENTIONAL |
| Allocation | randomized |
| Design | parallel |
| Masking | single |
| Primary purpose | treatment |
| Enrollment | 24 |
| Start date | 2 March 2017 |
| Primary completion | 31 January 2020 |
| Estimated completion | 30 April 2020 |
| Sites | 1 location across Taiwan |
Drugs / interventions tested
- tCES
- Sham tCES
Conditions studied
- Stroke — all drugs for Stroke →
Sponsor
Taipei Medical University
Who can join
20 and older, any sex, with Stroke. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.
Sponsor's own description
Transcranial electrical stimulation (tCES) is contemporarily important issues in the advanced rehabilitation medicine. tCES can selectively change the excitability of regional cortex with non-invansive and safety properties. Therefore, the investigators aim to develop a set of tCES system with special waveforms for using in clinical rehabilitation of upper extremities. This developed tCES system is smaller than all commercial available products, which could be conveniently and portably wore on head for clinical rehabilitation. In addition, the present tCES system with special waveforms developing by the investigators is much more efficient on improving neuroplasticity than the traditional transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) in rats. The investigators hope the tCES system combined with the rehabilitation of body extremities will become a routine treatment for stroke patients at hospitals or residential rehabilitation in the future.
Publications & conference data
1 peer-reviewed publication reference this trial (live from Europe PMC):
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Transcranial electrostimulation with special waveforms enhances upper-limb motor function in patients with chronic stroke: a pilot randomized controlled trial.
Chen SC, Yang LY, Adeel M, Lai CH, et al · · 2021 · cited 12× · PMID 34193179 · DOI 10.1186/s12984-021-00901-8
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- Trial protocol + status: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT04369235 (US National Library of Medicine, public domain)
- Publications: Europe PMC API search by NCT ID, retrieved 10 June 2026
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- Sponsor: as reported to ClinicalTrials.gov by Taipei Medical University
- Last refreshed: 15 April 2021
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