Benefits of Inspiratory Muscle Training
Spinal Cord Injuries Australia (SCIA) and Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA) have a partnership which helps us work together to best support our community. In 2018, comedian and radio presenter, Tommy Little raised over $100,000 for SCIA by running the Antarctic Ice Marathon. SCIA presented this to NeuRA to fund life-changing research into finding a cure […]
Recharge and refocus for 2021
2020 was quite a year. With still so much uncertainty, our friends at International SOS have put together mental health self-care tips for you to recharge and refocus for 2021, and start the year mentally and emotionally strong. Mental health and emotional wellbeing is something that has come into the forefront over the past 12 […]
Keep active, healthy and informed during the holidays
The holiday season is upon us, and as we celebrate togetherness in our own way, SCIA has put together information, with the help of our internal and external experts, to help you stay active, healthy, informed and safe if you can travel. We have featured some of these stories in our periodical eNewsletter, NeuroNews. If […]
SCIA Holiday Hours
With the festive season around the corner, we’d like to thank all our clients and members, new and old, for your valued support over this past year. Spinal Cord Injuries Australia will remain open during the Holiday period, with a skeleton staff complement from 21 December until 1 January 2021 to assist you with urgent […]
Free COVID-19 Webinar
COVID-19 has had a big impact on our SCIA community, and we would like to continue to support you by providing validated information, advice, tools and techniques to manage this ‘new normal’ way of life. It is with this continued level support that we are offering all our clients and members a free two part […]
Hireup 1% Program
SCIA is proud to be working in partnership with Hireup. Hireup is an online platform for people with disability to find, hire and manage their own supports. This is a unique partnership, with all aspects of the partnership designed to empower people with disability. It is great to be working in partnership with an organisation in the disability sector that has […]
NeuroMoves National Conference begins!
NeuroMoves 10th National Conference has begun! This year, due to COVID, they went online! Thanks to this virtual world, they have been able to reach far and wide for their presenters and are lucky to have so many world renowned gurus of spinal cord injury and neuro rehab joining them. We’re excited to hear from […]
Support our Christmas Appeal
Harry was born at 26 weeks weighing only 1040 grams and was in hospital for the majority of the first five months of his life. He sustained a spinal cord injury (SCI) within weeks of his birth and had many medical hurdles to overcome, including bacterial meningitis twice in his first 4 months and over […]