About Us

Currently, more than 10,000 people with spinal cord injury are living in our community, with 400 new cases occuring every year.

Today they will never walk again.

Neil Sachse lives for the day that people with spinal cord injury will walk again.

From vision to reality

He established the Neil Sachse Foundation as a first step to curing spinal cord injury.

Thanks to vital community support, we have established the Neil Sachse Foundation Spinal Cord Injury Research Centre, to provide a dedicated laboratory for researchers and students.

As an integral part of the University of Adelaide's Neuroscience Research Insitute, the Centre will also become an international centre-of-excellence aimed at making a significant difference to the lives of people who suffer a spinal cord injury.

Research will focus on protection of nerves in the spinal cord immediately following damage caused by accidents or falls (neuroprotection) and to nerve regrowth (reconnection).

Your support will help these people take their first step to a better quality of life.

About Neil

Neil Sachse was a young man when he was injured playing Australian rules football with Footscray (now the Western Bulldogs). He never walked again. Since his 1975 accident, thousands of young men and women have been involved in similar accidents which damaged their spinal cord on our sports grounds, our roads, at work, even at home.

About Yvie

On the 31st March 2009 Yvette (Yvie) Eglinton was training for the World Triathlon Championships when she hit a pothole and flew over the handle bars breaking both her neck and back. The accident has left Yvie as a T4 paraplegic with only a small amount of sensory function. Yvie has not let her disability stop her from pursuing her dream of representing Australia in the sporting arena.