Trustees of WWWA believe that the new and yet-to-be –developed treatments for spinal injuries are much safer than most forms of every-day major surgery carried out in New Zealand - such as heart, lung and liver transplants.
Those other forms usually require patients to take anti-rejection drugs, whereas the emerging spinal cord treatments involve using the patient’s own cells to re-build the damaged spinal column – no donation of tissue or cells is required by another human.
