Multi-functional Neuroprosthetic System for Restoration of Motor Function in Spinal Cord Injury

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Conditions studied: Spinal Cord Injuries, Spinal Cord Injury at C5-C7 Level, Spinal Cord Injury Cervical, Spinal Cord Injury at C5-C7 Level With Complete Lesion, Spinal Cord Injury at C5-C7 Level With Incomplete Lesion

In brief

This study is to evaluate the use of a fully implanted device for providing hand function, reach, and trunk function to individuals with cervical spinal cord injury. Funding Sources: FDA OOPD NIH NINDS

Key facts

Study ID: NCT02329652
Run by: Anne Bryden
People needed: 30
Starts: 2014-12-01
Expected to finish: 2031-12-31
Last updated by the study team: 2025-12-19

Who can join

Age: 17 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

Diagnosis of cervical level spinal cord injury, either complete or incomplete; International Standards for Neurological Classification of Spinal Cord Injury (INCSCI) motor level of C4 through C8; American Spinal Injury Impairment Scale (AIS) grade A, B, C, or D; six months or more post-injury
Biceps/brachialis/brachioradialis strength of 2/5 or higher on Manual Muscle Test
Peripheral nerve innervation to upper extremity and trunk muscles, including a grade 3/5 or higher stimulated strength (Manual Muscle Test) in at least two of the following muscles in one arm: adductor pollicis, abductor pollicis brevis, flexor pollicis longus, extensor pollicis longus, extensor digitorum communis, flexor digitorum superficialis, flexor digitorum profundus, pronator quadratus, extensor carpi ulnaris, extensor carpi radialis brevis, extensor radialis longus, flexor carpi ulnaris, flexor carpi radialis, first dorsal interosseous; and in at least two of the following muscles: left/right gluteus maximus, left/right erector spinae, left/right quadratus lumborum,
Age > 16 years
Medically stable - cleared for surgery
Able and willing to take part in study

You may not qualify if…

Currently pregnant (neuroprosthesis implantation delayed until no longer pregnant)
Other neurological conditions (multiple sclerosis, diabetes with peripheral nerve involvement)
History of coagulopathy, HIV, severe cardiopulmonary disease, severe bradycardia, severe autonomic dysreflexia, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Active untreated infection such as decubitus ulcer, urinary tract infection, pneumonia
Presence of other active implantable medical devices with unknown or untested interaction with the NNP implant
Active implantable medical device (AIMD) such as a pacemaker or defibrillator, with the exception of the implanted stimulator-telemeter (IST) or implanted receiver stimulator (IRS) systems developed by the Cleveland Functional Electrical Stimulation Center
Unhealed fractures that prevent functional use of arm or trunk
Less than six months post-injury (neuroprosthesis implantation delayed until criteria met)
Extensive upper extremity denervation (fewer than two stimulatable hand muscles and two stimulatable trunk muscles)
Involvement in other ongoing clinical studies that exclude concurrent until criteria met)
Disorder or condition that require MRI monitoring
Mechanical ventilator dependency
Progressive SCI In subjects who are undergoing bilateral implantation, subjects should not have a history of autonomic dysreflexia, hypertension, diabetes or any condition which requires frequent blood pressure monitoring or frequent venipuncture.
Adverse interaction between system components and typical electromagnetic (EM) sources in subject's home and work environments, including wheelchair or other active implantable devices.

Where it is running

MetroHealth Medical Center — Cleveland, Ohio, United States (enrolling)

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