Neil Sachse was a young man when he was injured playing Australian rules football with Melbourne's VFL team Footscray (now the Western Bulldogs). He never walked again.
Since the 1975 accident thousands of young men and women have been involved in similar accidents which damaged their spinal cord on sports grounds, Australia's roads and elsewhere. More than 9,000 people with spinal cord injury are living in our community today. They will never walk again. Every year there 400 new cases of spinal cord injury.
Neil Sachse now lives for the day that people with spinal cord injury will walk again. He established the Neil Sachse Foundation as a first step to curing spinal cord injury and return of DIGNITY!
Thanks to vital community support, the Foundation has established the Neil Sachse Foundation Spinal Cord Injury Research Centre, to provide a laboratory for researchers and students dedicated solely to spinal cord injury.
Based at the University of Adelaide, the Research Centre will be an integral part of the University's Adelaide Neuroscience Research Insitute. We expect it to also become an international centre -of-excellence that will make a significant difference to the lives of people who suffer a spinal cord injury.
The Centre's research will focus on ways to protect nerves in the spinal cord immediately following damage caused by motor accidents,falls and other accidents (neuroprotection) and to promote their regrowth (reconnection).
We know which projects are vital but require the funds to bring them to fruition and improve people's quality of life. Please help.
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Our heartfelt thanks to Scott Group of Companies for their support of the
Neil Sachse Foundation.
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Neil Sachse Foundation thanks Clubs S.A for their generous donation
The Neil Sachse Foundation thanks Clubs S.A through the I.G.A
for their ongoing support.
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