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First global open-source database for spinal cord injury research

Posted on: August 19, 2019 Categorized in: Research
Experts from the University of Alberta and the University of California, San Francisco, are teaming up to launch the world’s first open-source database for international spinal cord injury research.  The Open Data Commons for preclinical Spinal Cord Injury research (ODC-SCI) will improve spinal…
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How epidural stimulation got people with spinal-cord injuries back on their feet

Posted on: August 02, 2019 Categorized in: News, Research
Electrical stimulation has promised huge gains for people with paralysis. Now comes the hard part – getting beyond those first steps.  In this in-depth feature, the journal Nature looks at how far epidural stimulation has come and what can be…
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Medical regulators warn against 'stem cell tourism'

Posted on: July 26, 2019 Categorized in: News, Research
Medical regulators have been warning against what’s known as ‘stem cell tourism’. Medical experts have warned that the downside of unproven stem cell treatments isn’t only that they won’t work, but they can be life-threatening, the Sydney Morning Herald reports.…
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Nerve transfer surgery restores hand function and elbow extension

Posted on: July 06, 2019 Categorized in: Research
Australian surgeons have restored hand and elbow function in 13 young adults with complete quadriplegia by attaching functioning nerves above the spinal injury to paralysed nerves below the injury.  Two years after the operation, and following intensive physical therapy, the…
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SCI community 'hopeful' after NSW govt $15m funding announcement

Posted on: June 20, 2019 Categorized in: News, Research, Media releases
We were honoured to attend to the NSW Treasurer’s Budget speech on Tuesday, and listen to his inspiring words as he announced a $15 million investment into spinal cord injury research.  NSW Treasurer the Hon Dominic Perrottet MP announced  “a new…
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Media Release: NSW Government SCI research investment

Posted on: June 16, 2019 Categorized in: Research, Media releases
MEDIA RELEASE SPINALCURE APPLAUDS NSW GOVT INVESTMENT IN SPINAL CORD INJURY RESEARCH SpinalCure Australia (SpinalCure), the peak national organisation funding spinal injury research, is delighted with the announcement, by the NSW Treasurer the Hon Dominic Perrottet MP, of a $15…
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NSW to invest $15 million is spinal cord injury research

Posted on: June 15, 2019 Categorized in: News, Research
$15 million to get us closer to the cure We are delighted to share that the NSW Treasurer the Hon Dominic Perrottet MP plans to announce a $15 million investment into spinal cord injury research in Tuesday’s budget. SpinalCure was given the opportunity to present…
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'How fracturing my neck made me want to give back to others'

Posted on: June 11, 2019 Categorized in: News, Supporters
Mitch Rule, from the Basin in Victoria, was playing Australian rules football in April this year when he suffered a brutal on-field collision that left him concussed and with fractured C6 vertebrae in his neck. Mitch, 25, was extremely lucky not…
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Two paralysed patients walk again, without surgery

Posted on: June 05, 2019 Categorized in: Research
Two patients with long-term paralysis have walked over 4,500 steps with the help of a walker, as part of a new pilot study led by brain-machine interface pioneer Dr. Miguel Nicolelis at Duke University, in North Carolina, USA. The program involved…
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SpinalCure Australia funds program to help rehabilitate hand and arm function for people with SCI

Posted on: May 24, 2019 Categorized in: News, Research
UPDATE: Research participants are being sought for this project. For further information, please email: [email protected].  SpinalCure Australia is pleased to announce that $20,000 has been granted to Dr Camila Quel De Oliveira, Lecturer of Physiotherapy at UTS, to conduct a…
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