Last month Matt Speakman won the Queensland Under 1600 Improved Production championship using hand controls against able bodied drivers. As far as we know this is the first time someone with spinal cord injury has become a state champion in…
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After 20 years of frontline police work Allan Sparkes grabbed the headlines for his heroic rescue of a child swept down a flooded storm water drain – an act of bravery for which he won the Cross of Valour. Allan’s brother David,…
SCIA Walk On activity based program
SCIA’s Walk On program has been piloted in Brisbane since May 2008. It is an intensive exercise recovery program which offers a path to maximising functional recovery for people with spinal cord injuries. It is directly based upon the Project Walk…
5Sports has "Kicked a goal for SpinalCure"
The new 5sports complex at Caringbah has been packed with soccer players for the last four weeks. And we are very happy about it since all their court hire and competition fees for the month are being donated to SpinalCure!…
Dr David Brown – Difference Maker
SpinalCure Australia congrautlates Dr David Brown on becoming a Rick Hanson Difference Maker. Earlier this year, Rick Hamsen visited Australia as part of the 25th anniversary celebrations of his ‘Man in Motion’ World Tour. Rick Hansen is a Canadian icon,…
Governor-General opens SCIA’s Walk On Program
Speech by Her Excellency Ms Quentin Bryce AC Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia on the occasion of the Official launch of the Spinal Cord Injuries Australia Walk On Program at the University of Sydney, NSW on 3 November 2010…
NRMA Insurance/SpinalCure Australia announce inaugural Senior Research Fellowship
The first ever NRMA Insurance/SpinalCure Australia Senior Research Fellowship has been awarded to Dr David Brown from the Centre of Immunology, St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney. The award will be presented by the CEO of NRMA Insurance, David Issa at Re:Connections,…
Lisa Palmer Spinal Research Consortium
The Vice-Chancellor of The University of Queensland, Professor John Hay, AC, today accepted a bequest of $650,000 from the estate of Lisa Denise Palmer, who died of cancer after living with a paralysing spinal injury. “It is a great honour…