Over 80,000 Americans have to deal with spinal cord injuries every year! Spinal cord injury is damage to one’s spinal column leading to loss of function and/or sensation to one or multiple body parts. Imagine the thousands of victims with spinal cord injury that have lost function of a body part, but not sensation. They are constantly in excruciating pain, yet can’t even move that body part. No one has been able to find a pain reliever for this…until now!

A drug called Pregabalin exists on the market, but is currently used as a pain reliever for diabetes. A research group in Australia discovered that Pregabalin can also be used to ease the pain for spinal cord injury victims. About 80% of their test group of patients with spinal cord injury confirmed a reduction of pain and anxiety over a 12 week test period. They also confirmed that Pregabalin improved their sleep and overall well-being. About 30% of the test group said that they has no pain or only mild pain!

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