Actively Recruiting
Double Dose 4-AP on Functional Recovery After Spinal Cord Injury
Led by Shirley Ryan AbilityLab · Updated on 2025-04-03
27
Participants Needed
1
Research Sites
56 weeks
Total Duration
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AI-Summary
What this Trial Is About
The purpose of this study is to test a strategy to potentiate functional recovery of lower limb motor function in individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI). The FDA approved drug, Dalfampridine (4-AP). 4-AP will be used twice-daily in combination of Spike-timing-dependent plasticity (STDP) stimulation and STDP stimulation with limb training.
CONDITIONS
Official Title
Double Dose 4-AP on Functional Recovery After Spinal Cord Injury
Who Can Participate
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if you...
- Male and females between ages 18-85 years
- Spinal cord injury at least 6 months post injury
- Spinal cord injury at or above L2
- ASIA A, B, C, or D, complete or incomplete injury
- Ability to perform a small visible contraction with dorsiflexion and hip flexor muscles
You will not qualify if you...
- Uncontrolled medical problems including pulmonary, cardiovascular, or orthopedic disease
- Any history of renal impairment
- Any debilitating disease prior to the SCI causing exercise intolerance
- Premorbid, ongoing major depression or psychosis, or altered cognitive status
- History of head injury or stroke
- Vascular, traumatic, tumoral, infectious, or metabolic brain lesion without seizure history or anticonvulsant medication
- History of seizures or epilepsy
- Use of drugs lowering seizure threshold acting on the central nervous system
- Pregnant females
- Women of childbearing age unsure of pregnancy who decline pregnancy test
- Ongoing cord compression or syrinx in the spinal cord or spinal cord diseases such as spinal stenosis, spina bifida, multiple sclerosis, or herniated disk
- Metal plate in skull
- Presence of scalp shrapnel, cochlear implants, or aneurysm clips
- Taking Bupropion, Dolutegravir, Lacosamide, Trilaciclib, or drugs prolonging PR interval
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Trial Site Locations
Total: 1 location
1
Shirley Ryan Abilitylab
Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60611
Actively Recruiting
Research Team
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Monica Perez, PT, PhD
CONTACT
B
Bing Chen, PhD
CONTACT
How is the study designed?
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Masking
TRIPLE
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Model
PARALLEL
Primary Purpose
TREATMENT
Number of Arms
2
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