It takes only an instant for a spinal cord injury (SCI) to happen, but the devastating effects of an injury can last a lifetime. Over 84% of spinal cord injuries occur among people who are under the age of 34. Over 60% of people with spinal cord injuries are unemployed. Healthcare costs over the lifetime can reach $2.5 million per person, and that number does not take into account other aspects of the economy that are influenced by the afflicted individual’s lack of participation in the workforce, nor the indirect economic impact upon the 10 million Canadians whose lives are affected in some way by children, teenagers and adults living with spinal cord injury. Spinal cord injuries have a huge economic and personal impact upon society—but there is hope.

 

Wheel to Walk Canada is dedicated to funding breakthrough Canadian research towards a cure for spinal cord injuries so that people all over the world can rise up from their wheelchairs and walk again. With your help, that day may only be five years away. Browse our site. Read about the exciting research that holds out real hope for dramatically improving the lives of people suffering not just from spinal cord injury, but from Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, diabetes, multiple sclerosis, stroke and other diseases.

 

Visit the How You Can Help section of our website and get involved. We all have the power to make a difference.

 

Sincerely,

 Chair Wheel to Walk Canada