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Cervical Spinal Cord Injury: early-phase trial registry

12 of 19 indexed Cervical Spinal Cord Injury trials are currently recruiting, with more weight in Phase 1-2.

Corpus placement: #902 of 28,707 conditions by registered trial count.

19 US clinical trials · 12 currently recruiting · #902 of 28,707 conditions by registered trial count

Cervical Spinal Cord Injury: 19 US clinical trials tracked, 12 recruiting.

Cervical Spinal Cord Injury is the subject of 19 registered US clinical trials on ClinicalTrials.gov, 12 of them currently open to new participants. 0 are in Phase 3-4 (later-stage) and 4 in Phase 1-2 (earlier-stage). The most active sponsor is Neuralink, running 2 of these trials.

Enrollment posture brief

Registry condition cervical-spinal-cord-injury

OPEN 12 | RECR 63% | LATE 0 | EARLY 4 | RANK #902 | SPON 2

Nearest open-share peer: Small Cell Lung Carcinoma (63% recruiting · 19 trials)

Cervical Spinal Cord Inj (th…63%Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosi52.6%Anesthesia, Local42.1%Alcohol Consumption36.8%Attention Deficit Hyperactiv26.3%
Open-enrollment share among volume-matched conditions near Cervical Spinal Cord Injury

Cervical Spinal Cord Injury lists 12 open slots (63% of 19 indexed trials). Peers are matched on registered volume, not therapeutic-area browse lists. How peer matching works →

Key findings

What ClinicalTrials.gov does not surface for Cervical Spinal Cord Injury on its own pages , computed from the registry mirror as of 2026-08-08. Each line carries its own denominator so it can be quoted as it stands.

  1. Cervical Spinal Cord Injury is recruiting above its size-band peers.

    12 of 19 indexed trials (63.2%) are open to enrollment, against a 46.5% average across 27,806 conditions with fewer than 20 trials. The peer set uses the same ClinicalTrials.gov-derived counts as this page.

  2. Sponsorship of Cervical Spinal Cord Injury trials is spread across many organizations.

    Neuralink accounts for 2 of 19 trials (10.5%). 16 distinct sponsors appear on at least one study for this condition label.

  3. Most Cervical Spinal Cord Injury trials plan to enrol fewer than 100 people.

    Median target enrolment is 12 among the 19 trials that report a genuine target (sentinel values excluded). 19 of those (100%) plan for fewer than 100 participants.

  4. Cervical Spinal Cord Injury research is mostly interventional.

    15 interventional and 4 observational studies make up this index (78.9% interventional). Study type is sponsor-reported on ClinicalTrials.gov.

Phase 13Phase 21

Open and recent trials

19 total, page 1 of 1

RECRUITING Early Phase 1 92 participants

Spinal Cord Associative Plasticity Study

Columbia University

NCT05163639

RECRUITING NA 36 participants

Targeting Cervical Epidural Spinal Cord Stimulation for Functional Recovery

Columbia University

NCT06701422

RECRUITING 30 participants

Nerve Transfer to Improve Function in High Level Tetraplegia

Washington University School of Medicine

NCT06288763

RECRUITING Early Phase 1 17 participants

Rebuilding Inter-limb Transfer in Cervical SCI

The Cleveland Clinic

NCT06440538

RECRUITING NA 15 participants

Precise Robotically IMplanted Brain-Computer InterfacE

Neuralink

NCT06429735

RECRUITING NA 12 participants

Augmenting Rehabilitation Outcomes and Functional Neuroplasticity Using Epidural Stimulation of Cervical Spinal Cord

The Methodist Hospital Research Institute

NCT06225245

RECRUITING NA 12 participants

A User-friendly, Non-invasive Neuro-orthosis That Restores Volitionally Controlled Grasp Functions for SCI Survivors With Tetraplegia

Ohio State University

NCT06087445

RECRUITING 10 participants

Nerve Transfers Plus Electrical Stimulation to Improve Hand Function in Cervical Spinal Cord Injury

Stanford University

NCT06541041

RECRUITING NA 10 participants

Neurostimulation for Respiratory Function After Spinal Cord Injury

Shirley Ryan AbilityLab

NCT05756894

RECRUITING NA 6 participants

VOICE: An Early Feasibility Study of a Precise Robotically Implanted Brain-Computer Interface for Communication Restoration

Neuralink

NCT07224256

RECRUITING NA 2 participants

Connect-One: Early Feasibility Study of Connexus® Brain-Computer Interface (BCI)

Paradromics

NCT07357428

RECRUITING NA 2 participants

Feasibility of the BrainGate2 Neural Interface System in Persons With Tetraplegia (BG-Tablet-01)

Leigh R. Hochberg, MD, PhD.

NCT06511934

ACTIVE NOT RECRUITING 50 participants

Incomplete Cervical SCI Without Instability

AO Foundation, AO Spine

NCT05653206

ACTIVE NOT RECRUITING Phase 1 12 participants

Spinal Cord Neuromodulation for Spinal Cord Injury

University of California, Los Angeles

NCT02313194

ACTIVE NOT RECRUITING NA 6 participants

COMMAND Early Feasibility Study: Implantable BCI to Control a Digital Device for People With Paralysis

Synchron Medical

NCT05035823

ACTIVE NOT RECRUITING Phase 2 6 participants

Rehabilitation and Cortical Remodeling After Surgical Intervention for Spinal Cord Injury

Burke Medical Research Institute

NCT04041063

COMPLETED NA 46 participants

Supporting Patient Decisions About UE Surgery in Cervical SCI

Washington University School of Medicine

NCT03464409

COMPLETED NA 19 participants

Random Noise Stimulation to Enhance Cortical Drive & Improve Hand Function

Shepherd Center, Atlanta GA

NCT04777149

COMPLETED 14 participants

Comparing Outcomes of Elbow Extension Tendon Transfers

VA Office of Research and Development

NCT01204736

Phase Distribution

PhaseTrial count
Phase 1 3
Phase 2 1

Named interventions

Most-linked intervention names on Cervical Spinal Cord Injury records (sponsor-reported on ClinicalTrials.gov). Counts are trial links, not unique products.

R1 Robot Device
2 trials
N1 Implant Device
2 trials
SF-36 Other
1 trials
Spinal Cord Independence Measure (SCIM-SR) Other
1 trials
Semi-structured interview Other
1 trials
sham-stimulation Other
1 trials
transcranial Random Noise Stimulation (tRNS) Other
1 trials
transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) Other
1 trials

US sites by state

Facility locations filed on Cervical Spinal Cord Injury trials. A trial with sites in several states counts in each.

California 5 trials
New York 4 trials
Texas 3 trials
Pennsylvania 2 trials
Ohio 2 trials
Missouri 2 trials
Michigan 2 trials
Maryland 2 trials

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov, National Library of Medicine. Data is informational only.

What to do with this Cervical Spinal Cord Injury page

19 registered trials, 12 currently recruiting, is a starting point for a conversation, not a diagnosis or a recommendation.

  • 12 Cervical Spinal Cord Injury trials are currently recruiting, check eligibility criteria before contacting a site. Browse recruiting trials
  • Neuralink sponsors the most Cervical Spinal Cord Injury trials on record, review their full trial history before evaluating a specific study. See Neuralink's trials
  • Bring the specific trial ID (NCT number) to your own doctor before enrolling, this page is a directory, not medical guidance. Read the trial-finding guide

Trial and recruiting counts reflect ClinicalTrials.gov registry status as of the data vintage above; individual trial eligibility and enrollment status can change.

Every figure on PlainTrial is rendered directly from the ClinicalTrials.gov registry, no number is typed in by an editor. This Cervical Spinal Cord Injury condition card totals 19 registered trials; most-linked intervention R1 Robot; top US site state California. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, the data changelog, or report a data error.