Active clinical trials for "Spinal Cord Injuries"

This is a single blind randomized controlled trial study which will conducted on people with paraplegia wheelchair users. The objectives of this study is to investigates the effects of 16 weeks of 'Graded Exercise Integrated Education' over conventional physical therapy on physical fitness, exercise self-efficacy and the level of physical activity. There will be a significant difference between the experimental and control group.

This study argues that providing evidence-based occupational therapy patient education is vital in order to optimize rehabilitation outcomes. The planned trial aims to evaluate the SADL-eM intervention for people with SCI compared with standard treatment.

The FIRST project compares the dose of robotic gait training (RGT) with usual care gait training for patients with spinal cord injury (SCI) undergoing rehabilitation at Baylor Scott & White Institute for Rehabilitation (BSWIR).

This Study is a single arm,Phase I/II , single centre trial to check active comparing the safety and efficacy of Bone marrow derived autologous cell(100 million per dose) trial to be conducted for 36 months.

The purpose of this experimental therapy is an assessment of the safety and feasibility of transplantation of autologous olfactory ensheathing glia and olfactory fibroblasts obtained from the olfactory mucosa in patients with complete spinal cord injury.

The purpose of this investigation is to determine the effect of lower limb vibration therapy on bone density in the tibia in patients with spinal cord injury. The second purpose is to assess the neuromuscular junction variability at the motor units of the tibialis anterior muscle after a sequence of lower limb vibration therapy

NRI research focuses on nursing interventions that are patient-centered, culturally congruent, cost-effective and outcome-driven. High priority populations of interest are veterans with Spinal Cord Injuries (SCI). The development of innovative tele home techniques for preventing pressure ulcers in veterans with SCI is of high importance in the VA. Our findings may provide clinicians with improved methods for skin and wound assessment and more effective and efficient PUP strategies for Hispanic and non Hispanic veterans. The new model for primary care, the patient-centered Medical Home provides an exciting change in the VA that can benefit from the proposed project.

Individuals with chronic cervical SCI are known to have a restrictive ventilatory defect due to complete or partial loss of respiratory muscle innervation which is dependent upon the level and completeness of injury [2]. In addition, they share many aspects of obstructive airway physiology commonly associated with asthma. In asthma, physiological responses such as decrease in baseline airway caliber, bronchodilatation following inhalation of a beta-2-adrenergic agonist or anticholinergic agent, airway hyperreactivity, are all closely related to airway inflammation. The cause of such inflammation is unclear, and may be multi-factorial and attributable to: recurrent respiratory infections due to inability to effectively clear secretions, unopposed parasymphathetic innervation, and loss of functional sympathetic innervation to the airways. Therefore, the investigators propose to test for the possible involvement the above mechanisms by pharmacological intervention, and to study effects of such intervention on overall pulmonary function and indirect measures of pulmonary inflammation: levels of FeNO, exhaled breath condensate (EBC) inflammatory biomarker profile, pulmonary function tests, and cellular profile of the induced sputum.

Incomplete spinal cord injury often results in difficulty walking. Training on a treadmill with body weight support may improve walking ability after spinal cord injury. The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of treadmill speed on spinal cord function and walking performance.

The purpose of this study is to determine if spinal excitability is increased with a Spinal Associative Stimulation (SAS) protocol, and to determine the functional consequences of this technique on motor recovery.