The results are unbelievable.
This month we’re launching our first New Zealand-based community study. Like you, we’re committed to supporting the most promising spinal research. We also want to ensure advances are accessible to everyone. So, we’re launching Get a Grip in New Zealand. Bringing research from international labs to New Zealand rehab.

“for someone like me … to gain just a little bit of function would make a massive difference”, says Sydney Get a Grip participant, Alex Richter.

Your donation will help progress the neurostimulation research and make this revolutionary therapy accessible to Kiwis. Please make your donation now.

With your support, CatWalk has been collaborating with SpinalCure Australia and Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA) since 2021. ‘Project Spark’ is the collective name for multiple neurostimulation studies conducted by them in Sydney – including Get a Grip.

Now, we’re bringing Get a Grip to New Zealand.

Get a Grip aims to improve hand, arm and respiratory function for people with a spinal cord injury. Electrodes placed on the skin, provide non-invasive neurostimulation to ‘jump-start’ the spinal cord. And, already, it’s showing remarkable results.

Alex is a participant in Get a Grip in Sydney. When he was 16 years old, Alex came off his mountain bike. He spent seven weeks in intensive care, learning how to breathe again. Coming to terms with the fact that he was paralysed from the chest down took a little longer.

Now, in his final year at Uni, Alex explains the significance of the Get a Grip study.

“If I could use my fingers, if I could use my triceps, that would make such a difference to me. Even just getting myself in and out of bed… to able to pick up … and use a normal fork to eat food”

A cure is one thing that would be incredible but even just a tiny bit of function improvement would make a huge difference to my life”

Neurostimulation is a potentially revolutionary treatment for those with a spinal cord injury. So far, the results have been nothing less than unbelievable.

No other experimental therapy has demonstrated this level of meaningful return of feeling and function. And no other treatment has the potential to be ready for mainstream distribution in the short term. Neurostimulation is non-invasive, inexpensive and safe – and the results are unbelievable.

Please donate today to help bring research from the lab to rehab. To help turn theories into treatments, make your donation now.

CatWalk committed to the five-year-long Project Spark study back in 2021. While continuing to fund the study in Australia, we simply couldn’t pass up the opportunity to bring Get a Grip to New Zealand.

We have New Zealand Ethics Committee approval. We’ve formed a partnership with Rope Neuro Rehabilitation to provide the therapy. We’ve started purchasing the necessary equipment and training the therapists.

Neurostimulation offers incredible benefits to people with spinal cord injury. And we’re now just weeks away from starting Get a Grip in New Zealand.

Alex Richter - Get a Grip Trial

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