Why SCI Australia?


walkon2SCI Australia is a long-standing charitable enterprise focusing on the needs of people with SCI. In outlining our vision for people with SCI, and indeed to the wider community, we are guided by the Prevention, Care, Cure platform that drives our organisation.

Whilst we support the ongoing research for a cure it is unlikely that there will be a magic bullet in the medium to short term. Rehabilitation and recovery can assist in maximising capabilities in the absence of a cure. It will also allow for participants to maximise the effects of therapies and other clinical trials that may be forthcoming in the next decade. Walk On participants would be a natural group to be offered such opportunities and to participate in such therapeutic and clinical trials.

SCI Australia will continue to educate the SCI community and others that “cure” can be about “whole of life recovery”, rather than an unlikely short term “magic bullet”.