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NCT06867809
Spine and Brain Stimulation for Movement Recovery After Cervical Spinal Cord Injury
NA trial testing Epidural spinal cord stimulation and paired spine and brain stimulation in Spinal Cord Injury in 20 participants. Currently enrolling.
31 October 2026
Quick facts
| Lead sponsor | Jason Carmel |
|---|---|
| Phase | NA |
| Status | Recruiting now |
| Study type | INTERVENTIONAL |
| Allocation | na |
| Design | single group |
| Masking | none |
| Primary purpose | treatment |
| Enrollment | 20 |
| Start date | 15 January 2026 |
| Primary completion | 31 October 2026 |
| Estimated completion | 31 March 2027 |
| Sites | 2 locations across United States |
Drugs / interventions tested
- Epidural spinal cord stimulation and paired spine and brain stimulation
Conditions studied
- Spinal Cord Injury — all drugs for Spinal Cord Injury →
- Spinal Cord Injury Cervical — all drugs for Spinal Cord Injury Cervical →
Sponsor
Jason Carmel
Who can join
18 and older, any sex, with Spinal Cord Injury or Spinal Cord Injury Cervical. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.
Sponsor's own description
Stimulation of the spinal cord and brain represents a new experimental therapy that may have potential to restore movement after spinal cord injury. While some scientists have begun to study the effect of electrical stimulation on patient's ability to walk and move their legs after lower spinal cord injury, the use of stimulation of the upper (cervical) spine to restore arm and hand function after cervical spinal cord injury remains less well explored. The investigators are doing this research study to improve understanding of whether cervical spinal cord stimulation and brain stimulation can be used to improve arm and hand function. To do this, the investigators will combine spine stimulation (in the form of electrical stimulation from electrical stimulation wires temporarily implanted next to the cervical spinal cord) and brain stimulation (in the form of transcranial magnetic stimulation). The investigators will perform a series of experiments over 29 days to study whether these forms of stimulation can be applied and combined to provide improvement in arm and hand function.
Publications & conference data
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Verify against primary sources
- ClinicalTrials.gov — authoritative US registry record
- WHO ICTRP — international registry index
- EU Clinical Trials Register
- Sponsor press releases (Google)
- Trial protocol + status: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT06867809 (US National Library of Medicine, public domain)
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- Sponsor: as reported to ClinicalTrials.gov by Jason Carmel
- Last refreshed: 30 October 2025
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