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Restoring High Dimensional Hand Function to Persons With Chronic High Tetraplegia

NCT03482310 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 1

Last updated 2026-02-20

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Summary

This study is for people who have a paralyzed arm and hand from a spinal cord injury, who have also received a recording electrode array in the brain as part of the BrainGate study. The study will look at the ability of these participants to control different grasping patterns of the hand, both in virtual reality and in his/her actual hand. Movement of the participant's hand is controlled by a functional electrical stimulation (FES) system, which involves small electrodes implanted in the arm, shoulder and hand that use small electrical currents to activate the appropriate muscles.

Conditions

  • Spinal Cord Injuries
  • Tetraplegia
  • Quadriplegia

Interventions

DEVICE

Using the Neuroport cortical recording array to determine the desired grasp pattern for a functional electrical stimulation (FES) system

Participants will be asked to think about holding different shaped objects, and the recorded cortical signal patterns will be decoded to match those grasp shapes

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Case Western Reserve University

    collaborator OTHER

  • VA Office of Research and Development

    lead FED

Principal Investigators

  • Abidemi B. Ajiboye, PhD · Louis Stokes VA Medical Center, Cleveland, OH

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
DEVICE_FEASIBILITY
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-06-01
Primary Completion
2023-09-30
Completion
2023-09-30
FDA Device
Yes

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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