It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Ray Wickson. Ray was a pioneer and leader in a quest for a cure for paralysis caused by spinal cord injury. After being injured in a car accident in 1983, Ray dedicated his life to raising funds for spinal...
SCITRIALS.ORG – Helping Connect People with Spinal Cord Injury Trials Worldwide
SCITRIALS.ORG a new website that launched this fall, is offering people with spinal cord injuries a fast and accurate way to search for clinical trials happening anywhere in the world. For people looking for spinal cord injury (SCI) trials to participate in, the current offerings online are cumbersome and not specifically...
SAM Car Experience at Honda Toronto Indy
This year, at the Toronto Honda Indy the CSRO Ambassador Team was invited to take part in the SAM Car experience - which stands for Semi-Autonomous Motorcar. The vehicle was created by Arrow, and allows drivers with paralysis caused by spinal cord injuries to operate the car without the use...
Honda Indy Toronto – Paving the Way for a Cure campaign launch
The Honda Indy Toronto was a weekend to remember for the CSRO, with the launch of our Paving the Way for a Cure campaign. We enjoyed the action on the track, while cheering on our friends at Arrow Schmidt Peterson Motorsports as their team competed for the win. We chose...
CSRO In Memoriam: Remembering Clifford Voll
Clifford Voll was a man who valued independence, community, and progress. After a motor vehicle crash resulted in a spinal cord injury at his C7 vertebrae, Clifford was classified as a quadriplegic but he had almost full use of his arms and hands. This ability allowed him to use a...
Non-Surgical Recovery of Function: Not a Fantasy
Kate Willette “Improved voluntary hand function occurred within a single session in every subject tested.” That’s the killer sentence from a new study soon to be published in the Journal of Neurotrauma. The principal investigator is our old friend, Professor Reggie Edgerton, who has been looking for ways to help people...
Paving the Way for a Cure campaign receives $25,000 donation from Wawanesa Insurance
This week, the Canadian Spinal Research Organization (CSRO) received a $25,000 donation from Wawanesa insurance. This generous donation will support the ‘Paving a Way for a Cure’ campaign and Wawanesa will sponsor one subject in an upcoming study on epidural stimulation. Our Paving the Way for a Cure campaign was...
MTO Reconnection Golf Tournament 2018
The 11th Annual MTO Reconnection Tournament was held at Cardinal Golf Club on June 11th, and it was a tremendous success. MTO employees, retirees, and other notable members of the road-building community all came out to show their support for Carl Hennum & the CSRO/ASRO. Carl, who was an Assistant...
UCLA researchers find a way to repair nerve damage with stem cells
UCLA researchers have developed a way to use stem cells to help potentially rebuild damaged spinal cords. In a study published in January, researchers in the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research established a way to derive sensory interneurons, which are cells involved...
Gene jumpstarts regeneration of damaged nerve cells
Searching the entire genome, a Yale research team has identified a gene that when eliminated can spur regeneration of axons in nerve cells severed by spinal cord injury. “For the first time, the limits on nerve fiber regeneration were studied in an unbiased way across nearly all genes,” said Stephen...