NCT06987682

Stimulating Postural Control to Augment Rehabilitation After Cerebral Stroke (SPARC): a Pilot Trial

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 16 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University Health Network, Toronto · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

People living with stroke have a high risk of falling and this risk increases as mobility improves over the first year post-stroke. Despite the high number of falls, there is a lack of interventions to prevent falls after stroke. One possible solution is to alter nerve activity through delivery of a stimulus, such as electrical stimulation. The purpose of this study is to describe and compare clinical, biomechanical and nerve-related outcomes between individuals with stroke who receive RBT with tSCS and those who receive RBT with sham tSCS.

Conditions

• Stroke

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Balance training	Participants will don a safety harness that is secured to an overhead track. Each balance training session will involve 60 minutes of reactive balance training (RBT). For both intervention arms, trancutaneous spinal stimulation will be set up, including placing electrodes and setting stimulation amplitudes.

Timeline

• Start date: 2025-05-21
• Primary completion: 2027-06-01
• Completion: 2027-12-01
• First posted: 2025-05-23
• Last updated: 2026-03-23

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Canada