top of page
Search

No Place for Kids: The Clinical Trials Enrollment

  • Mar 18, 2025
  • 1 min read

Updated: May 10, 2025

Written by: Heather Y.

As a parent of a 16 year old son with a Spinal Cord Injury since he was 15, accessing clinical trials and appropriate treatments and therapies has been less than ideal.  After combing through all the clinical trials for SCI on clinicaltrials.gov our son was only potentially eligible for 2 trials.  Over 95% of the trials required participants to be 18 years old and older to participate.  Trials are very narrow with many exclusions for participation.  Age should not be one of them. 

Therapies and treatments (i.e., PT, OT, acupuncture, dry needing, Electrical Stimulation,  adaptive exercise therapy, etc...) are all very limited and we've paid out of pocket for most of the services we have been able to find.

 
 
 

Comments

fractal@4pedcapital.com

SAN FRANCISCO, CA, USA

Fractal Pediatric Capital (FPC) is a website operated by Fractal Pediatric Capital, LLC. By accessing this site and any pages hereof, you agree to be bound by the Terms of Service. FPC does not make investment recommendations, and no communication through this website or otherwise should be construed as a recommendation for any offer of a security referenced on this website or otherwise. Companies or individuals providing information on this site are solely responsible for their content. All investors in FPC Funds must be accredited investors. Investing in private placements requires high tolerance for risk and illiquidity, and investors must be able to afford to lose their entire investment. Information about any securities offering should not be considered complete and is qualified by the full offering documents corresponding to the financing. The information contained here or in any correspondence or attachment hereto may include forward-looking statements, estimates, projections and/or representations. To the fullest extent permissible by law, neither FPC, LLC. nor its funds; nor any of their managers or non-managing members, employees, representatives, or agents make any representation or warranty, express or implied, as to the accuracy, completeness or definitiveness of this information, and nothing contained herein shall be relied upon as a representation as to past or future performance. We are not a registered broker, dealer, investment advisor, investment manager or funding portal. FPC, LLC and FPC Managing Member do not give investment advice, provide analysis or recommendations. *IRS Circular 230 Disclosure: To ensure compliance with requirements imposed by the IRS, we inform you that any tax advice contained in this communication (including any attachments) was not intended or written to be used and cannot be used, for the purpose of (i) avoiding any tax penalty or (ii) promoting, marketing or recommending to another party any transaction or matter addressed herein.

bottom of page