Spinal Research is the UK's leading charity funding medical research around the world to develop reliable treatments for paralysis.
Over 105,000 people are living with a spinal cord injury in the UK. A spinal cord injury affects not just your mobility and sensation, but also the functioning of your bladder, bowel, skin, breathing and sexual function. Spinal Research believe in a future where paralysis is no longer a life sentence.
We exist to cure paralysis.
Over the last 40 years our work has helped deliver some of the major scientific breakthroughs needed to understand the biology of the spinal cord, and importantly what is needed to repair it. Today there are research facilities around the world developing a range of cutting-edge treatment pathways, some of which are now in clinical trial.
With promising results taking place, the first generation of treatments for paralysis is within our grasp.
"i can move my little finger now, what can i do with it" Well thatll help a lot with grip i imagine. Being a paraplegic i do get jealous whenever I see all these trials of tetraplegics, for sure its a more serious condition, but ive been injured 17 years. Whenever i hear someone with a neck break whos only been injured for 6 months (or two years) it feels like theyve jumped the queue. Anyway its always exciting to see progress. And yeah certain level gains definitely matter more than others.
In Sept 2023 NervGen started testing their drug NVG-291 in humans with SCI. NVG-291 interrupts the neuron's PTPsigma receptors, which would otherwise bind to the CSPGs that inhibit recovery after injury. The drug's MOA is related to the chondroitinase discussion in this video. So there's hope! Look into NervGen.
Great job guys! :) Just curious how many rowers were not singing on the challenge!? :) Btw, good choice with Bohemian… :) - I going definetaly sing it on two oceans! :)
we wanna go for a long walk after spinal cord complete injury we want promising successful treatment available for us give us treatment or death instead of life God grant us
Yeah guys but before you going to give even more pompous speeches let me ask you what are you seeing here? ru-vid.com/group/PLCDwzUjyar0GO7Qdf8hQUSs5fhT0ygYXy
It'd be great if some of these studies could get to human trials, also if some studies would look at thorasic. I know a neck break is worse, but if youre incomplete with a neck break you often have more than someone whos complete with a back break
Hi there, thank you for your comment. We are currently funding various clinical trials (using human participants), which you can find out about on our website. To find out more about current clinical trials, particularly those relevant to your level of injury, visit the Scitrials website (link is in the description). If you have any more questions please do not hesitate to ask.
No it's not a bummer...she is a productive person and will be even better in some ways. I think if you and her mum research spinal cord injury research, you will find it is no further now in 2021 than it was years ago. Her mum and you are living a pipe dream hoping and wishing and not making the most of right now. Her trachy could clog up and she could conceivably die...and what will you and she remember of the NOW times? Not much...just hopes and dreams of a future that may never be. Wake up and be realistic. I broke C4 in 1983 when I was 22...I was an incomplete injury and even walked again. A bone infection got into my spine and irritated things all over again and I am in a wheelchair. Because I am now 60...guess what...a) the injury is too old to do anything with and b) so am I...they wouldn't waste their time...so make the most of NOW and be realistic.
@Emmy exactly...living in a dream world...you get nothing done. The longer it takes you to accept things...the longer it takes you to decide to live and learn how to do things. The longer you take to get people to help you...the longer you don't have a life because only you can be number 1 and prevent forest fires. I have been waiting almost 3 years for someone to help with a busted hip and leg. They aren't...that's almost 3 years not doing things I could have enjoyed.
@Emmy Well, Canada is letting people sit and suffer. I wonder if I didn't have a loss of sensation, how much it truly WOULD hurt. Yes, I am hurting., but apparently games and all. Well, I'm not playing games. I'l just take care of my legs and hip myself I guess. I don't want to and I'm really not looking forward to it...but I really need something done. I honestly think it's an age discriminatory thing because I'm 60...and a couple of doctors (both at the QE II hospital in Halifax, NS, Ross Leighton and Sean Barry) said, 'Oh, after 50, we don't offer prosthesis....'. But they have let me sit a year now.
Dan, hope you are fightning strong and dont lose hope, my Husband had a Spinal injury at the age of 15, Tetraplegic and God took him away from me at the age of 23 last year.. very difficult
