Thank you all for your generous donations – Stroke Recovery Trial Fund has now made 3 donations totalling $105,000 to Griffith University’s School of Medical Science for the world-first Perispinal Etanercept clinical trial for Stroke. This ground-breaking research was completed in 2019 and the results were published in January 2020. The clinical trial showed that Perispinal Etanercept Treatment was effective in reducing post-stroke pain and improving muscle spasticity. A link to this publication is on our Clinical trial website for : http://strokerecoverytrialfund.org/research/clinical-trial-information/
Like many of you, our Founding and Managing Director 2015-2019 had personal experience with the devastation that is typical following stroke or brain injury whose son, Joel, at age 3, had a severe acute brain injury. For more than 20 years he was confined to a wheelchair, unable to walk unassisted. His doctors said there was no treatment. Although there was no treatment in Australia – she never gave up hope! Sadly , medical breakthroughs are few and far between and often, their significance is overlooked at first. Australian Nobel Laureate Barry Marshall comes to mind, as does Dr. Semmelweis, whose discovery that handwashing reduces maternal mortality in childbirth was ignored for decades in Europe by the entrenched medical community. And now -the world is just discovering that a new breakthrough for treatment of chronic stroke and brain injury has been made in America.
As a community we now have a unique opportunity to help bring that treatment to Australia. Your donation (large or small), to make this happen without delay, is urgently needed.
The reason that the SRTF was established by from a personal connection of the founding and Managing Director 2015-2020 whose son, Joel received life-changing treatment in the USA in 2014. Now, for the first time in more than 20 years, he can walk unassisted, and he is better in 1000 other ways; all from a simple injection which only takes minutes. See the YouTube video of his progress. This unmet medical need in Australia is critical with no comparable treatment available. Joel, like dozens of other Australians travelled to USA to receive this treatment, after seeing the results of the treatment on a special episode of 60 Minutes. To make it widely available in Australia, randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trials must be done. These clinical trials are enormously expensive. After funding the first study, at Griffith University on the Gold Coast, published in January 2020 , a second trial is currently underway. This is why your help, and the help of all Australians, is urgently needed. Your donations to the Stroke Recovery Trial Fund will be primarily used to fund the Griffith University Clinical Trial and further clinical trials to enable an application to be made to the Therapeutic Goods Administration to have perispinal etanercept treatment approved as a treatment for stroke in Australia.
Please see the Perispinal Etanercept Action Group website for further information about the treatment, other success stories, and information about the Griffith University Clinical Trial. We are a fully approved charity in Australia and donations $2 and over are tax deductible.
Please donate (below) to get this clinical trial started this year and get your tax-deductible receipt emailed to you! Thank you for your kindness!
DONATIONS OF $2 AND OVER ARE TAX DEDUCTIBLE (ABN 47604632582)
You can also make your generous donation by Direct Deposit from your own online bank into the Stroke Recovery Trial Fund Account at Bendigo Bank
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ACCOUNT NUMBER: 154398507
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