Sensory Feedback Strategies for Spinal Cord Injury
This study aims to understand how stimulating nerves in your limbs or brain can help restore sensation after a spinal cord injury. You would already be part of the "Reconnecting the Hand and Arm to the Brain (ReHAB)" study, meaning you have small electrodes implanted in your brain (sensory cortex) and around nerves in your arm. This trial will test different ways of using electrical stimulation, including directly to the brain (Intracortical microstimulation or ICMS) and to the nerves in your arm (peripheral nerve stimulation or PNS), or a combination of both. Researchers will measure how well you can identify forces and objects, and your ability to tell the difference between sensations. The goal is to find the best ways to bring back feeling.
- Study design
- This interventional study plans to enroll 3 participants who have already received specific implants from a previous trial.
- What's involved
- You would undergo various stimulation tests to investigate how you perceive sensations and how this impacts your function for up to two years after enrollment.
- Compensation
- Not stated in the trial record.
- Follow-up
- Your progress will be monitored for up to two years after you join the study, specifically regarding your ability to match forces and discriminate objects.
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Development of Optimal Sensory Feedback Strategies to Maximize Function After Tetraplegia
At a glance
Conditions
Where it's being run
1 sites across 1 statesStudy leadership
- Emily Graczyk, Ph.D. · PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR · Case Western Reserve University
Who to contact
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What this trial measures
- Force matching success rateFrom enrollment to around two years after enrollment
Percentage of force matching trials per block in which the target force was achieved before the time limit
- Object discrimination accuracyFrom enrollment to around two years after enrollment
Percentage of trials per block in which the correct object was identified
- Discrimination thresholdFrom enrollment until around two years post-enrollment
Minimal change in stimulation that results in a reliably distinguishable change in perceived magnitude
- Tactor detection thresholdFrom enrollment to around two years after enrollment
Minimal mechanical stimulus, delivered by a tactor that the participant can reliably perceive