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Visual Impairment: later-stage trial registry

5 of 8 indexed Visual Impairment trials are currently recruiting, with more weight in Phase 3-4.

Corpus placement: #2,176 of 28,707 conditions by registered trial count.

8 US clinical trials · 5 currently recruiting · #2,176 of 28,707 conditions by registered trial count

Visual Impairment: 8 US clinical trials tracked, 5 recruiting.

Visual Impairment is the subject of 8 registered US clinical trials on ClinicalTrials.gov, 5 of them currently open to new participants. 1 are in Phase 3-4 (later-stage) and 0 in Phase 1-2 (earlier-stage). The most active sponsor is Case Western Reserve University, running 2 of these trials.

Enrollment posture brief

Registry condition visual-impairment

OPEN 5 | RECR 63% | LATE 1 | EARLY 0 | RANK #2176 | SPON 2

Nearest open-share peer: Adolescent (63% recruiting · 16 trials)

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Open-enrollment share among volume-matched conditions near Visual Impairment

Visual Impairment lists 5 open slots (63% of 8 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 Visual Impairment 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. Visual Impairment is recruiting above its size-band peers.

    5 of 8 indexed trials (62.5%) 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. One sponsor concentrates Visual Impairment research.

    Case Western Reserve University accounts for 2 of 8 trials (25%). 7 distinct sponsors appear on at least one study for this condition label.

  3. Most Visual Impairment trials plan to enrol fewer than 100 people.

    Median target enrolment is 45 among the 8 trials that report a genuine target (sentinel values excluded). 6 of those (75%) plan for fewer than 100 participants.

  4. Visual Impairment research is mostly interventional.

    8 interventional and 0 observational studies make up this index (100% interventional). Study type is sponsor-reported on ClinicalTrials.gov.

Phase 31

Phase Distribution

PhaseTrial count
Phase 3 1

Named interventions

Most-linked intervention names on Visual Impairment records (sponsor-reported on ClinicalTrials.gov). Counts are trial links, not unique products.

DSME with Usual Foot Examination Instruction Behavioral
1 trials
DSME with Nonvisual Foot Examination Behavioral
1 trials
SmartHMD version 4 Device
1 trials
SmartHMD version 3 Device
1 trials
SmartHMD version 2 Device
1 trials
SmartHMD version 1 Device
1 trials
Nonvisual foot inspection Behavioral
1 trials
Integrated Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) & Mindfulness Group Intervention for Adjustment to Vision Loss Behavioral
1 trials

US sites by state

Facility locations filed on Visual Impairment trials. A trial with sites in several states counts in each.

Ohio 3 trials
Michigan 3 trials
Illinois 2 trials
Texas 1 trials
Tennessee 1 trials
South Carolina 1 trials
Pennsylvania 1 trials
Oregon 1 trials

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

What to do with this Visual Impairment page

8 registered trials, 5 currently recruiting, is a starting point for a conversation, not a diagnosis or a recommendation.

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 Visual Impairment condition card totals 8 registered trials; most-linked intervention DSME with Usual Foot Examination Instruction; top US site state Ohio. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, the data changelog, or report a data error.