News and Events

• Opening of RSRC Movement Laboratory
• Lab backs a winner – New hope for spinal injuries (The Herald Sun, 26/08/05)
• Laboratory helps people learning to walk again(The Age, 25/08/05)
• $300k Research Award to Spinal Cord Regrowth (UniNews, 16/05/05)
• Pelvic Floor Exercises versus ‘Holding On’ in Treatment of Incontinence (Media Release, 15/03/05)
• Australian Scientists Re-grow Cut Cord (Media Release, 08/11/04)

The RSRC was officially opened on the 24th August 2005

Paraplegic Laura Ahrens with Mary Galea, Prisca Eser and Health Minister Bronwyn Pike.

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Lab backs a winner – New hope for spinal injuries

(The Herald Sun, Friday 26 August 2005)
People with spinal injuries will use the same equipment as top athletes to help them get back on their feet. A new movement laboratory at Austin Health's Royal Talbot Rehabilitation Centre will aid rehabilitation patients ....read more (PDF, 1MB)

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Laboratory helps people learning to walk again

(The Age, Thursday 25 August 2005)
Darren Stevenson can't remember how it happened. It was October, 2003. One moment he was walking alone on a Port Melbourne street. Two weeks later, he was waking up in hospital, unable to move.....read more

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$300k Research Award to Spinal Cord Regrowth

(Uninews 16 May 2005)
A University of Melbourne researcher has been rewarded with a SpinalCure Australia Fellowship for her groundbreaking research to enhance the regrowth of spinal cord nerves after they are damaged ....read more

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Pelvic Floor Exercises versus ‘Holding On’ in Treatment of Incontinence

(Media Release Tuesday 15 March 2005)
Pelvic floor muscle exercises could feel the squeeze when they go up against toilet techniques in a new study to find the best way to treat incontinence ....read more

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Australian Scientists Re-grow Cut Cord

(Media Release Monday 8 November 2004)
In a world first, Australian researchers have discovered a mechanism for greatly enhancing regrowth of spinal cord nerves after they are damaged, restoring the ability to walk in mice within weeks of a spinal cord injury ....read more

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