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

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Neuromodulation

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What belongs here

Changing the activity of spared circuits with an electrical or magnetic field, with no aim of regrowing cut fibres.

What does not belong here, however close it looks

Stimulating a muscle to contract is functional electrical stimulation, a separate concept.

What has been looked at

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  • Registered or indexed as work in people: 3382 records · 1950–2028
  • Indexed as work in animals: 713 records · 1980–2026
  • Indexed as laboratory work: 18 records · 1987–2025
  • The source has not said who or what was studied: 731 records · 1984–2026
  • No matching published catalogue records are linked above. Human-review status must be checked on the evidence itself.

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4844 records

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Indexed as laboratory work

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Where this was looked for, and when

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ClinicalTrials.govasked, and it answeredasked on 2026-10-05
Collection window: 2026-09-16 – 2026-10-05
matched in this collection walk 5 · accumulated records across collection walks 448 · 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 1054379 · 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 2026-09-17
Collection window: all dates before the end date – 2026-09-17
matched in this collection walk 4481 · accumulated records across collection walks 4481 · still to fetch in this walk 0aim: every record matching this question
The question asked
  • ClinicalTrials.gov("neuromodulation" OR "spinal cord stimulation" OR "electrical stimulation")
  • Crossrefspinal cord injury neuromodulation spinal cord 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 ("Electric Stimulation Therapy"[MeSH Terms] OR "Spinal Cord Stimulation"[MeSH Terms] OR "neuromodulation"[Title/Abstract] OR "spinal cord stimulation"[Title/Abstract] OR "electrical stimulation"[Title/Abstract])

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