Determining the Effects of Non-invasive Brain Stimulation to Improve Quadriceps Muscle Function After ACL Reconstruction

PHASE1/PHASE2RecruitingINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

42

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

June 5, 2025

Primary Completion Date

January 31, 2028

Study Completion Date

June 4, 2028

Conditions
Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction RehabilitationQuadriceps Muscle Function
Interventions
DEVICE

active transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS)

20 minutes of anodal tDCS over the primary motor cortex contralateral to the participants surgical limb during a quadriceps torque matching task

DEVICE

sham transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS)

Participants receive sham tDCS in which the device only delivers current during the first and last 30 seconds while participants perform a quadriceps torque matching task

Trial Locations (1)

19038

RECRUITING

Ryan Zarzycki, Glenside

All Listed Sponsors
collaborator

Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

NIH

lead

Arcadia University

OTHER

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