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Tag: spinal cord injury recovery

Tag: spinal cord injury recovery

Minister Hunt accepts 30,000-strong petition & creates history-making $10m neurostimulation grant

Posted on: April 05, 2022 Categorized in: News, Research, Media releases
Video by @cambloom Join us on the Project Spark journey and support our campaign to transform the lives of people with spinal cord injury. Read the full story: On Wednesday 30 March, Minister Greg Hunt accepted SpinalCure Australia’s 30,000-strong petition…
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Prof Simon Gandevia

SpinalCure scientist series: Prof. Simon Gandevia on how he became interested in science and spinal cord injuries

Posted on: December 30, 2021 Categorized in: Research
Professor Simon Gandevia is one of the world’s leading neuroscientists, and is the Deputy Director of NeuRA and Senior Principal Research Fellow, NHMRC. He is also the Study Lead for the eWALK trial, funded and initiated by SpinalCure, along with…
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‘Dancing molecules’ repair spinal cord injuries in mice

Posted on: December 10, 2021 Categorized in: Research
For decades, spinal cord injuries have remained one of the hardest injuries for scientists to treat because nerves in our spinal cord have a limited ability to repair. But a new study from Northwestern University in the United States has…
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Camila Quel de Oliveira

SpinalCure Scientist series: Dr Quel de Oliveira talks SCI research and robotics

Posted on: October 27, 2021 Categorized in: Research, Personal stories
SpinalCure speaks to Dr Camila Quel de Oliveira, the lead researcher on a study testing the feasibility of robotics-assisted game-based arm and hand rehabilitation for people with spinal cord injury (SCI). This study is funded by SpinalCure, due to its potential…
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Lack of bladder control is one of the unseen effects of spinal cord injuries. Can neurostimulation help?

Posted on: October 12, 2021 Categorized in: News, Research
One of the unseen side effects of spinal cord injuries is a loss of bladder control. Many people with spinal cord injuries (SCI) have to take drugs to control their bladders, but unfortunately they come with lots of side effects,…
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COVID vaccination and spinal cord injuries

Posted on: October 05, 2021 Categorized in: News, Research
Are you concerned about having the COVID vaccine? In the below video, Dr Sachin Shetty, Director of the Spinal Injuries Unit at the Prince of Wales Hospital and SpinalCure Board Director talks through common concerns around COVID-19 vaccinations for people…
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Study reviews use of neurostimulation in early recovery from an SCI

Posted on: September 16, 2021 Categorized in: News, Research, Current clinical trials
A recent study has shown for the first time that transcutaneous spinal cord stimulation, also known as neurostimulation, can be used successfully in people while they are still recovering in hospital, writes Tom Elphick, SpinalCure Community Ambassador. Neurostimulation is one of…
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