Clinical trialNCT04457492TerminatedInterventional

Functional Electrical Stimulation for Facial Muscles

SponsorUniversity Health Network, TorontoEnrollment1Facial Nerve Paresis

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Summary

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Partial or complete facial paralysis is the weakness of muscles of facial expression. Facial paralysis causes physical, social and emotional problems. Functional electrical stimulation (FES) for facial paralysis is a technique in which muscles are electrically stimulated, causing them to contract This study is designed to help patients with facial nerve weakness.

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Investigators

The overall officials registered on this study. Names that resolve to a findmyKOL profile link to it; the rest are shown as registered.

Douglas Chepeha, MD
University Health Network, Toronto
Principal Investigator
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Sites

1 registered facility, with the per-site recruitment status where the registry publishes one. ClinicalTrials.gov does not publish per-site enrollment counts.

Canada

University Health Network
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Drugs studied

No drug or biological interventions are in our data for this study. It may test a procedure, device or behavioral intervention, or the intervention list isn't in our current snapshot. See the registry record ↗. Why? →

Registration & key dates

Registry attributes as recorded on the ClinicalTrials.gov study record.

Start: 1 Nov 2021
Primary completion: 16 Mar 2023
Completion: 16 Mar 2023
Last update posted: 20 Mar 2024
Registered enrollment: 1
Registry id: NCT04457492

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Source: ClinicalTrials.gov, via the CTTI AACT database, data as of 24 Aug 2026. Registry facts are shown as registered by the study sponsor; findmyKOL does not interpret them.