NCT03721861

Use of Neural Functional Electrical Stimulation for the Recovery of Grasping Movements for Patient With Quadriplegia.

• Status: Terminated
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 9 (actual)
• Sponsor: Clinique Beau Soleil · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Functional electrical stimulation (FES) has been used for decades in rehabilitation centers. Having demonstrated efficacy for prevention of muscle atrophy following spinal cord injury (SCI), FES can also be considered for functional restoration of hand movements in the patients with complete tetraplegia belonging to group 0 or 1 of the classification of Giens. However, the majority of the systems using the FES directly stimulates the muscles (surface electrodes, intramuscular or epimysial), which increases the number of components and requires more electrical energy for the muscle activation. Nerve stimulation would activate more muscles through a reduced number of electrodes, limiting the number of internal components, reduces the risk of spreading infections and require less electrical energy for its operation.

Conditions

• Spinal Cord Injuries

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Intra-operative neural cuff stimulation	A feasibility study consists of placing 2 electrodes around the radial or medial nerves intraoperatively. The movements caused by the electrical stimulation of these nerves are observed.

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-02-09
• Primary completion: 2016-02-09
• Completion: 2019-06-15
• First posted: 2018-10-26
• Last updated: 2021-02-10

Locations

1 site across 1 country: France