Trials / Recruiting
RecruitingNCT03320759
Enhancing Recovery in Non-Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury
Enhancing Recovery in Non-Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury: Implementation of an Integrated Program for the Assessment of Rehabilitation Therapies
- Status
- Recruiting
- Phase
- N/A
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 40 (estimated)
- Sponsor
- Western University, Canada · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 18 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
Summary
The investigators have spent the last decade uncovering unique metabolic and functional abnormalities in the brains of patients with spinal cord compression. Degenerative spinal cord compression represents a unique model of reversible spinal cord injury. In the investigator's previous work, they have demonstrated that cortical reorganization and recruitment is associated with metabolic changes in the brains of patients recovering from spinal cord compression and is correlated with recovery and improved neurological scores. The goal of this study is to combine a rigorous platform of clinical care that includes preoperative evaluation, surgery, and rehabilitation, with state of the art imaging techniques to demonstrate how rehabilitative therapy can increase brain plasticity and recovery of neurological function in patients with spinal cord injury. Neurological function will be carefully evaluated in two groups of patients, those receiving rehabilitation and those not receiving rehabilitation after spine surgery, and will be correlated with the results of advanced imaging.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| BEHAVIORAL | Occupational therapy rehabilitation | Participants in the experimental arm will receive occupational therapy that is individualized to each participant's needs from week 4 post-decompression surgery until week 12. |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2018-08-21
- Primary completion
- 2025-12-01
- Completion
- 2026-07-01
- First posted
- 2017-10-25
- Last updated
- 2024-03-28
Locations
1 site across 1 country: Canada
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT03320759. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.