Our trusted partners
There are around 50,000 people living in the UK with a spinal cord injury, (SCI) many of whom will experience complications from their injury.
Stoke Mandeville Spinal Research (SMSR) funds cutting edge medical research into these complications, helping people achieve greater independence, and enabling them to engage more freely in education, work, hobbies, social activities, and family life.
We provide grants to SCI researchers focussing on our four priority areas below. We deeply understand how each of these impacts on the quality of life of SCI people.
Our four priority areas (click on each to read more and to see details of our active research):
SMSR and the SIA share a vision and belief that people with SCI can live fulfilled lives.
But we also understand that the unseen complications of SCIs can stand in the way. Through our partnership, we encourage and support SIA members to engage with research into the prevention and treatment of complications such as UTIs and neuropathic pain. We’re also excited to be helping develop the SIA’s research and innovation hub, which will bring together researchers, clinicians and people living with SCI.
Through our partnership, we want to give SIA members the opportunity to participate in our ground-breaking research.
Currently, our researchers are looking for people with long term neuropathic pain to investigate the use of a surgical technique called Cingulotomy, in cases where other pain treatments have not been successful.
If you would like to learn more about this, and discuss it further with the experts leading the research, please email Derek Cutler, SMSR research grants manager at [email protected]
