{"id":34,"date":"2020-08-19T19:59:18","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T19:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/curesteps.org\/SCI\/?page_id=34"},"modified":"2020-08-30T22:55:54","modified_gmt":"2020-08-30T17:55:54","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/curesteps.org\/SCI\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>October 25th 1991 was a night changed Tim Kimball&#8217;s whole life. Out with friends at a nightclub, he was caught up in an altercation that left him paralyzed from the neck down. In the hospital he was told:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;you will never walk again. There is no cure. Don&#8217;t even hope for one because repairing the spinal cord is impossible&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But, things have changed since that time. A cure for paralysis is still no longer thought to be impossible. There have been many studies that show that recovery of function following a spinal cord injury is possible. However, progress has been slow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The good news is: things are beginning to heat up in the search for a cure. We are learning that, while it is a very complex problem, it is not impossible. Scientists are following many different lines of inquiry and some of them offer tantalizing clues that a cure may be found in the near future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is all very exciting. Over the years, I have heard about these things. And they have given me hope. But the road from basic science, to human trials, to having a viable treatment is a long and arduous road. There are many pitfalls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Lack of funding can grind progress to a halt.<\/li><li>Researchers have expressed some difficulty in getting people with spinal cord injuries to participate in clinical trials.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>With these realities in mind, CureSteps Foundation was founded with the purpose of ending the suffering of people living with chronic paralysis due to spinal cord injuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 25th 1991 was a night changed Tim Kimball&#8217;s whole life. Out with friends at a nightclub, he was caught up in an altercation that left him paralyzed from the neck down. In the hospital he was told: &#8220;you will never walk again. There is no cure. Don&#8217;t even hope for one because repairing the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-34","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/curesteps.org\/SCI\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/curesteps.org\/SCI\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/curesteps.org\/SCI\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/curesteps.org\/SCI\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/curesteps.org\/SCI\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/curesteps.org\/SCI\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149,"href":"http:\/\/curesteps.org\/SCI\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34\/revisions\/149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/curesteps.org\/SCI\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}