Lone Star Paralysis Foundation

The Lone Star Paralysis Foundation in conjunction with the Brain & Spine Center at Brackenridge Hospital hosted a Spinal Cord injury Open House with world-renowned neuroscientist and spinal cord injury researcher, Dr. Wise Young. This Open House included an update from Dr. Young on the current findings in spinal cord treatment and a discussion of the upcoming NASciNet clinical trials. This presentation will be followed by a Q&A session with Dr. Young and other participating physicians in the summit.

About the Summit:

The Lone Star Paralysis Foundation, founded by Austinite Doug English in 2000, hosted the Adult Stem Cell in Spinal Cord Treatment Summit in Austin, Texas. An integral part of this summit was the Spinal Cord Injury Workshop at University Medical Center at Brackenridge Hospital. The goal of this workshop was to bring some of the best minds in spinal cord research together to find opportunities to further the advancement of a cure for spinal cord injuries. While many clinical trials of spinal cord injury therapies have begun overseas, few or no clinical trials, particularly those aimed at chronic spinal cord injury, have taken place in the United States. This workshop marked the start of national clinical trials for the North American Spinal Cord Injury Network (NASciNet.org) at five major hospitals and research centers.

The Lone Star Paralysis Foundation has developed a Medical Research Advisory Committee that meets monthly to discuss the latest technology and advances in spinal cord injury research. This committee will give reports on current research being funded and make recommendations for future funding to the Board of Directors. Subscribe to our newsletter for regular updates on this committee, funded research projects, and all activities of the Lone Star Paralysis Foundation.

The Lone Star Paralysis Foundation is involved in all three aspects of a spinal cord injury:

We are funding programs that are helping people with spinal cord injuries today through programs at the Brain and Spine Recovery Center. Patients with spinal cord injuries go through an intensive advanced therapy program. They are then encouraged to stay physically fit in the community through programs like the spinal cord injury community fitness center. We want to make sure that all individuals with spinal cord injuries have the tools necessary to recover to their greatest ability.

Brain and Spine Recovery Center - Neurosciences at University Medical Center Brackenridge

The Brain and Spine Recovery Center is pushing the envelope on traditional therapy and getting some great results from patients that are newly injured to thirty years post-acute. In 2003, the Lone Star Paralysis Foundation granted the seed money to the Brain and Spine Center to initiate a new Functional Electrical Stimulation physical therapy research project. Visit the websites below for more information about the Brain and Spine Center.

Lone Star Paralysis Foundation is excited about funding cutting edge research at the University of Texas at Austin Department of Neurobiology. Dr. George Bittner is using Polyethylene-Glycol to repair injured nerve axons.

The Southwestern Spinal Cord Injury Center will study how the injured spinal cord can be retrained to function using body weight supported treadmill training with therapists or with a robotic device.

The Lone Star Paralysis Foundation is funding the work of Dr. Stephen Davies, PhD, Associate Professor at the University of Colorado at Denver. Here are some links to youtube.com with his work on New Spinal Cord Cells and Molecules for SCI Repair.

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