SCI Regeneration MapWhat the world knows about repairing the injured spinal cord

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Arm and hand function

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What belongs here

Restoring arm and hand movement after cervical injury, nerve and tendon transfer included.

What does not belong here, however close it looks

General independence scales with no separate arm measure do not belong here.

What has been looked at

Counted from what the sources catalogue, not from reading the work. It says how much exists and over what span of years — never what any of it found.

  • Registered or indexed as work in people: 3912 records · 1960–2027
  • Indexed as work in animals: 118 records · 1974–2026
  • The source has not said who or what was studied: 191 records · 1968–2026

    Checked

    Records a person has read against the original and published into this map. These carry measurements, evidence states and a place on the ladder.

    • Intrathecal administration of a soluble Nogo receptor decoy protein does not improve upper extremity motor strength or hand prehension function after spinal cord injury.

    Found in the scientific sources, not yet checked

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    4221 records

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    Registered or indexed as work in people

    Where this was looked for, and when

    The exact question each source was asked, the day it was asked, and what came back. A zero on this page is only honest if these are on it.

    ClinicalTrials.govasked, and it answeredasked on 2026-09-29the source found 6 · this programme has 163 · still to fetch 0aim: every record matching this question
    Crossrefasked, and it answeredasked on 2026-09-16the source found 2348488 · this programme has 49aim: 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 2026-10-12the source found 3 · this programme has 4064 · still to fetch 0aim: every record matching this question
    The question asked
    • ClinicalTrials.gov("upper limb function" OR "hand function" OR "nerve transfer")
    • Crossrefspinal cord injury upper limb function hand function
    • 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 ("Hand"[MeSH Terms] OR "Quadriplegia"[MeSH Terms] OR "upper limb function"[Title/Abstract] OR "hand function"[Title/Abstract] OR "nerve transfer"[Title/Abstract])

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