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Epidural electrical stimulation

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What belongs here

An electrode implanted in the epidural space over the cord, delivering current below the level of injury.

What does not belong here, however close it looks

Epidural stimulation purely for pain relief, with no motor or autonomic aim, belongs to the pain concept.

What has been looked at

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  • Registered or indexed as work in people: 896 records · 1945–2026
  • Indexed as work in animals: 195 records · 1978–2026
  • Indexed as laboratory work: 2 records · 2008–2025
  • The source has not said who or what was studied: 145 records · 1990–2026

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    1238 records

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    Where this was looked for, and when

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    ClinicalTrials.govasked, and it answeredasked on 2026-09-29
    Collection window: 2026-09-16 – 2026-09-29
    matched in this collection walk 1 · accumulated records across collection walks 55 · still to fetch in this walk 0aim: every record matching this question
    Crossrefasked, and it answeredasked on 2026-09-16
    Collection window: all dates before the end date – 2026-09-16
    matched in this collection walk 1988993 · accumulated records across collection walks 50aim: a sample of the most relevant records. This source ranks a bag of words, so its own total is the size of the corpus that shares some of them, never a set still owed.
    PubMedasked, and it answeredasked on 2026-10-12
    Collection window: 2026-09-16 – 2026-10-12
    matched in this collection walk 9 · accumulated records across collection walks 1166 · still to fetch in this walk 0aim: every record matching this question
    The question asked
    • ClinicalTrials.gov("epidural stimulation" OR "epidural electrical stimulation" OR "implanted epidural stimulator")
    • Crossrefspinal cord injury epidural stimulation epidural electrical stimulation
    • PubMed("Spinal Cord Injuries"[MeSH Terms] OR "spinal cord injury"[Title/Abstract] OR "spinal cord injuries"[Title/Abstract] OR "spinal cord trauma"[Title/Abstract]) AND ("Spinal Cord Stimulation"[MeSH Terms] OR "Epidural Space"[MeSH Terms] OR "epidural stimulation"[Title/Abstract] OR "epidural electrical stimulation"[Title/Abstract] OR "implanted epidural stimulator"[Title/Abstract])

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