Earlier this year, the Australian public were collectively devastated when young football star Alex McKinnon suffered a serious spinal injury in a dangerous tackle in round 3 of the 2014 NRL season.

Since then, we’ve held our breath as we’ve followed Alex’s post-injury journey, which has included an engagement to his long-term partner Teigan and a positive and determined commitment to his rehabilitation, in spite of the significant challenges.

Alex’s journey has now brought him to Robina, arriving in Gold Coast City last Friday to begin treatment with neuro science expert Kenneth Ware at the NeuroPhysics Functional Performance Centre in Robina.

NeuroPhysics is a science-based rehabilitation and training concept, which focuses on a holistic, all-encompassing program, engaging all of the body’s systems, to achieve the ultimate goal of completely recalibrating the nervous system.

The first of its kind globally, the NeuroPhysics Training Centre operates from M1X Energy Centre, Robina and has been helping elite athletes, patients with spinal-chord and musculo-skeletal injuries and sufferers of chronic pain disorders to rehabilitate and recover in record time.

Kenneth Ware, founder of Neurotricional Sciences and of Robina’s NeuroPhysics institute, famously helped football legend John Maclean walk after 25 years in a wheelchair using his unique exercise-based process, which activates communication in the nervous system to trigger self-organisation, correct imbalances and return to optimal function.

The NeuroPhysics technology joins other world-wide scientific breakthroughs in spinal chord recovery, with scientists recently successfully regrowing a severed spinal chord, resulting in a paralysed patient walking again.

Former Newcastle Knights forward Alex McKinnon has been in a wheelchair since sustaining his spinal injury in March, only leaving Sydney’s Royal Rehabilitation Centre on 18 October 2014.

Alex began his latest treatment at Robina’s NeuroPhysics Training and Rehab Centre on Monday.

Here at Robina Group, united with the rest of the country, we wish Alex all the best in his rehabilitation and remain hopeful the NeuroPhysics program is as successful for Alex as it has been for other injured athletes.

For more information on Alex’s journey or to donate to his recovery fund, visit Rise for Alex

For more information about Robina’s International NeuroPhysics Functional Performance Institute, visit NeuroPhysics Training, Kenneth Ware and Neurotricional Sciences