{"id":7618,"date":"2019-04-18T12:30:52","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T02:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spinalcure.org.au\/?p=7618"},"modified":"2019-04-18T12:30:52","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T02:30:52","slug":"new-medical-trial-cure-spinal-cord-injuries-australia-experts-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spinalcure.org.au\/research\/new-medical-trial-cure-spinal-cord-injuries-australia-experts-claim\/","title":{"rendered":"New medical trial could \u2018cure spinal cord injuries in Australia\u2019, experts claim"},"content":{"rendered":"

An extraordinary medical trial has provided a major breakthrough in global spinal cord injury research, with Australian researchers fighting to bring the new technology to Australia, Channel Nine\u2019s 60 Minutes program reported. <\/a><\/p>\n

David Mzee was diagnosed with paraplegia in 2010 after making a misstep while exercising at the gym.<\/p>\n

But after taking part in a revolutionary medical trial, led by Associate Professor Gregoire Courtine in Switzerland, David Mzee is taking steps of his own thanks to electrode stimulation sent through an iPad.<\/p>\n

Watch the full 60 Minutes story here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Professor Courtine\u00a0started his research by implanting electrodes in the spines of injured rats to see if they could move again. Professor Courtine\u2019s work in\u00a0Switzerland comes after significant studies conducted at the University of California, Los Angeles, with Professor Reggie Edgerton.<\/p>\n

In Australia,\u00a0Professor Bryce Vissel <\/a>from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) is working\u00a0to bring a new form of epidural stimulation to Australian spinal cord injury patients.<\/p>\n

\"Bryce
Bryce Vissel, Director of Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine in the Faculty of Science at UTS talking to 60 Minutes reporter Charles Wooley. (Credit: 60 Minutes)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We at SpinalCure are proud of the pivotal role we have played in establishing neuro-stimulation research in Australia.<\/p>\n

SpinalCure Australia worked with UTS to co-found the Spinal Cord Injury Recovery Research Program<\/a> – an initiative of UTS Centre for Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine, led by\u00a0Professor Bryce Vissel<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>and undertaken in partnership with world-renowned neuroscientist Professor Reggie Edgerton.<\/p>\n

SpinalCure has raised and directed over $820,000 in total to the program.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want this to be the world\u2019s leading program,\u201d Professor Vissel told 60 Minutes.<\/p>\n

Professor Vissel has convinced the university to invest millions to bring the latest research into spinal cord injury to Australia.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will find the best people in the world who are advancing the technology in science to the maximum capacity that they can, and try to bring them here to Australia,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\"The
The trial has made such an impact that David can now walk a few steps completely unaided without physical support or electronic stimulation. (Credit: 60 Minutes)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Program<\/a>, which commenced this year, brings together engineers, scientists, public health academics, nurses, physiologists, robotics experts, and PhD students supervised by Professor Edgerton, who work in collaboration with UTS\u2019s Faculties of Science, Health, and Engineering and Information Technology.<\/p>\n

Professor Bryce Vissel says his program needs $10 to $20 million to bring epidural stimulation to all Australians with spinal cord injuries.<\/p>\n

It’s a small price to pay, considering that the cost to Australian taxpayers of looking after spinal cord injury patients is currently $500 million a year.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur goal is no less than cure,\u201d Professor Vissel said.<\/p>\n

Watch more from 60 Minutes’ the interview with Professor Vissel here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\n
\nAn extraordinary medical trial has provided a major breakthrough in global spinal cord injury research, with Australian researchers fighting to bring the new technology to Australia, Channel Nine\u2019s 60 Minutes program reported. David Mzee was diagnosed with paraplegia in 2010…\n<\/div>\n
Continue reading “New medical trial could \u2018cure spinal cord injuries in Australia\u2019, experts claim”<\/span>…<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Continue reading “New medical trial could \u2018cure spinal cord injuries in Australia\u2019, experts claim”<\/span>…<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7633,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[84,60],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nNew medical trial could \u2018cure spinal cord injuries in Australia\u2019, experts claim - SpinalCure Australia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.spinalcure.org.au\/research\/new-medical-trial-cure-spinal-cord-injuries-australia-experts-claim\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"New medical trial could \u2018cure spinal cord injuries in Australia\u2019, experts claim - SpinalCure Australia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"An extraordinary medical trial has provided a major breakthrough in global spinal cord injury research, with Australian researchers fighting to bring the new technology to Australia, Channel Nine\u2019s 60 Minutes program reported. David Mzee was diagnosed with paraplegia in 2010… Continue reading “New medical trial could \u2018cure spinal cord injuries in Australia\u2019, experts claim”…\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.spinalcure.org.au\/research\/new-medical-trial-cure-spinal-cord-injuries-australia-experts-claim\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"SpinalCure Australia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/spinalcure\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-04-18T02:30:52+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@SpinalCure\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@SpinalCure\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.spinalcure.org.au\/research\/new-medical-trial-cure-spinal-cord-injuries-australia-experts-claim\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.spinalcure.org.au\/research\/new-medical-trial-cure-spinal-cord-injuries-australia-experts-claim\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.spinalcure.org.au\/#\/schema\/person\/bc494ede8cba2d25b3ab64a0b6c126ed\"},\"headline\":\"New medical trial could \u2018cure spinal cord injuries in Australia\u2019, experts claim\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-04-18T02:30:52+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-04-18T02:30:52+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.spinalcure.org.au\/research\/new-medical-trial-cure-spinal-cord-injuries-australia-experts-claim\/\"},\"wordCount\":473,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.spinalcure.org.au\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.spinalcure.org.au\/research\/new-medical-trial-cure-spinal-cord-injuries-australia-experts-claim\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"\",\"keywords\":[\"News\",\"research\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Research\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-AU\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.spinalcure.org.au\/research\/new-medical-trial-cure-spinal-cord-injuries-australia-experts-claim\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.spinalcure.org.au\/research\/new-medical-trial-cure-spinal-cord-injuries-australia-experts-claim\/\",\"name\":\"New medical trial could \u2018cure spinal cord injuries in Australia\u2019, experts claim - SpinalCure Australia\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.spinalcure.org.au\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.spinalcure.org.au\/research\/new-medical-trial-cure-spinal-cord-injuries-australia-experts-claim\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.spinalcure.org.au\/research\/new-medical-trial-cure-spinal-cord-injuries-australia-experts-claim\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-04-18T02:30:52+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-04-18T02:30:52+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.spinalcure.org.au\/research\/new-medical-trial-cure-spinal-cord-injuries-australia-experts-claim\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-AU\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.spinalcure.org.au\/research\/new-medical-trial-cure-spinal-cord-injuries-australia-experts-claim\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-AU\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.spinalcure.org.au\/research\/new-medical-trial-cure-spinal-cord-injuries-australia-experts-claim\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"\",\"contentUrl\":\"\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.spinalcure.org.au\/research\/new-medical-trial-cure-spinal-cord-injuries-australia-experts-claim\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.spinalcure.org.au\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"New medical trial could \u2018cure spinal cord injuries in Australia\u2019, experts claim\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.spinalcure.org.au\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.spinalcure.org.au\/\",\"name\":\"SpinalCure Australia\",\"description\":\"Funding research to cure spinal cord injury\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.spinalcure.org.au\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.spinalcure.org.au\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-AU\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.spinalcure.org.au\/#organization\",\"name\":\"SpinalCure\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.spinalcure.org.au\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-AU\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.spinalcure.org.au\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.spinalcure.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/logo-spinalcure.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.spinalcure.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/logo-spinalcure.png\",\"width\":300,\"height\":68,\"caption\":\"SpinalCure\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.spinalcure.org.au\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/spinalcure\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/SpinalCure\",\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/spinalcure\/\",\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/spinal-cure-australia\/?originalSubdomain=au\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.spinalcure.org.au\/#\/schema\/person\/bc494ede8cba2d25b3ab64a0b6c126ed\",\"name\":\"admin\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-AU\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.spinalcure.org.au\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/035691fa2d4d47093e2943e378dc7536?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/035691fa2d4d47093e2943e378dc7536?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"admin\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.spinalcure.org.au\/author\/admin\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"New medical trial could \u2018cure spinal cord injuries in Australia\u2019, experts claim - SpinalCure Australia","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.spinalcure.org.au\/research\/new-medical-trial-cure-spinal-cord-injuries-australia-experts-claim\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"New medical trial could \u2018cure spinal cord injuries in Australia\u2019, experts claim - SpinalCure Australia","og_description":"An extraordinary medical trial has provided a major breakthrough in global spinal cord injury research, with Australian researchers fighting to bring the new technology to Australia, Channel Nine\u2019s 60 Minutes program reported. David Mzee was diagnosed with paraplegia in 2010… Continue reading “New medical trial could \u2018cure spinal cord injuries in Australia\u2019, experts claim”…","og_url":"https:\/\/www.spinalcure.org.au\/research\/new-medical-trial-cure-spinal-cord-injuries-australia-experts-claim\/","og_site_name":"SpinalCure Australia","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/spinalcure","article_published_time":"2019-04-18T02:30:52+00:00","author":"admin","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@SpinalCure","twitter_site":"@SpinalCure","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"admin","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.spinalcure.org.au\/research\/new-medical-trial-cure-spinal-cord-injuries-australia-experts-claim\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.spinalcure.org.au\/research\/new-medical-trial-cure-spinal-cord-injuries-australia-experts-claim\/"},"author":{"name":"admin","@id":"https:\/\/www.spinalcure.org.au\/#\/schema\/person\/bc494ede8cba2d25b3ab64a0b6c126ed"},"headline":"New medical trial could \u2018cure spinal cord injuries in Australia\u2019, experts claim","datePublished":"2019-04-18T02:30:52+00:00","dateModified":"2019-04-18T02:30:52+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.spinalcure.org.au\/research\/new-medical-trial-cure-spinal-cord-injuries-australia-experts-claim\/"},"wordCount":473,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.spinalcure.org.au\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.spinalcure.org.au\/research\/new-medical-trial-cure-spinal-cord-injuries-australia-experts-claim\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"","keywords":["News","research"],"articleSection":["Research"],"inLanguage":"en-AU"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.spinalcure.org.au\/research\/new-medical-trial-cure-spinal-cord-injuries-australia-experts-claim\/","url":"https:\/\/www.spinalcure.org.au\/research\/new-medical-trial-cure-spinal-cord-injuries-australia-experts-claim\/","name":"New medical trial could \u2018cure spinal cord injuries in Australia\u2019, experts claim - SpinalCure Australia","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.spinalcure.org.au\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.spinalcure.org.au\/research\/new-medical-trial-cure-spinal-cord-injuries-australia-experts-claim\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.spinalcure.org.au\/research\/new-medical-trial-cure-spinal-cord-injuries-australia-experts-claim\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"","datePublished":"2019-04-18T02:30:52+00:00","dateModified":"2019-04-18T02:30:52+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.spinalcure.org.au\/research\/new-medical-trial-cure-spinal-cord-injuries-australia-experts-claim\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-AU","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.spinalcure.org.au\/research\/new-medical-trial-cure-spinal-cord-injuries-australia-experts-claim\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-AU","@id":"https:\/\/www.spinalcure.org.au\/research\/new-medical-trial-cure-spinal-cord-injuries-australia-experts-claim\/#primaryimage","url":"","contentUrl":""},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.spinalcure.org.au\/research\/new-medical-trial-cure-spinal-cord-injuries-australia-experts-claim\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.spinalcure.org.au\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"New medical trial could \u2018cure spinal cord injuries in Australia\u2019, experts claim"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.spinalcure.org.au\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.spinalcure.org.au\/","name":"SpinalCure Australia","description":"Funding research to cure spinal cord injury","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.spinalcure.org.au\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.spinalcure.org.au\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-AU"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.spinalcure.org.au\/#organization","name":"SpinalCure","url":"https:\/\/www.spinalcure.org.au\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-AU","@id":"https:\/\/www.spinalcure.org.au\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.spinalcure.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/logo-spinalcure.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.spinalcure.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/logo-spinalcure.png","width":300,"height":68,"caption":"SpinalCure"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.spinalcure.org.au\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/spinalcure","https:\/\/x.com\/SpinalCure","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/spinalcure\/","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/spinal-cure-australia\/?originalSubdomain=au"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.spinalcure.org.au\/#\/schema\/person\/bc494ede8cba2d25b3ab64a0b6c126ed","name":"admin","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-AU","@id":"https:\/\/www.spinalcure.org.au\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/035691fa2d4d47093e2943e378dc7536?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/035691fa2d4d47093e2943e378dc7536?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"admin"},"url":"https:\/\/www.spinalcure.org.au\/author\/admin\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spinalcure.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7618"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spinalcure.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spinalcure.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spinalcure.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spinalcure.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spinalcure.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spinalcure.org.au\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spinalcure.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spinalcure.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spinalcure.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}