Spinal Research

There are an estimated 110,000 people in the UK living with an injury that shatters dreams, destroys ambitions, and rips the very fabric of what was once considered normal. Someone suffers a spinal cord injury every four hours in the UK, causing frustration, grief for both those injured, their family and friends.

It was amidst these very emotions that Spinal Research was established in 1981 by Stewart Yesner, a young man who was injured and was determined to change the future of paralysis. Since then we have been conducting ground-breaking research and funding innovative therapies with the goal to recover function and change lives.

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.

The science is here and moving rapidly, what we need now is the support to accelerate this promising research to help our community. 

Together we will cure paralysis.