Have The Nerve: A Podcast About Disability

Dec 30 2024 50 ep. 38 mins 17
Have The Nerve: A Podcast About Disability artwork

Do you have the nerve to talk about disability?

Have The Nerve is a podcast brought to you by Spinal Cord Injuries Australia and funded by the Australian Government Department of Social Services. Join host, Susan Wood, as she talks you through everything to do with disability. 

  Society & Culture  Business  Health & Fitness
RSS feed Share
Copy RSS


Subscribe on Podcast Addict


Episode 50: Something To Think About - Are We Given Equitable Opportunities?

Dec 30 2024 16 mins  
Send us a text You're listening to episode FIFTY and the final episode of Have The Nerve for 2024. On this episode we’re going to talk about equity. Are the opportunities for people, specifically students with disabilities, fairer in 2024 than they were in, let's say, 2000? 16 year old high school student Lara Grimson comes on the podcast to share her story about trying to find w

Episode 49: Get To Know Your Body - Rehabilitation and Electrical Stimulation

Dec 18 2024 27 mins  
Send us a text This is Have The Nerve Shorts - the short episodes between the long ones where we talk about things From The Internet, you can Get To Know Your Body and there might be even Something To Think About. In this episode, Physiotherapist Colbey Van Leeuwen comes on to explain the three types of electrical stimulation that can aid in mobility and pain management for individ

Episode 48: Is That... Actually Accessible?

Dec 12 2024 43 mins  
Send us a text In October this year Professor Shane Clifton wrote a piece for The Conversation titled, 'When even fringe festival venues exclude people with disability, cities need to act on access' after a series of accessibility issues to attend events at one of Sydney's biggest festivals on the calendar. Shane is the Associate Professor of Practice, School of Health Sciences and

Episode 47: Something to Think About - What Does Sport Mean To Me?

Oct 16 2024 74 mins  
Send us a text Have The Nerve Not-So-Short this episode! You will hear the stories of three people who explain what sport means to them, because when it comes to disability and sport society may focus on physical strength or the medals, but it's so much more than that. On this episode you hear from: Tamsin Colley is an international athlete in para-athletics and cerebral palsy foot

Episode 46: Get To Know Your Body - Hydrotherapy

Aug 28 2024 17 mins  
Send us a text This is Have The Nerve Shorts - the short episodes between the long ones where we talk about things From The Internet, you can Get To Know Your Body and there might be even Something To Think About. In this episode Exercise Physiologist Alicia Payne answers the question "Why should I exercise in the water?". If you've ever considered getting into a pool, but don't kn

Episode 45: From The Internet - Ultimate World Cruise Tea Time

Aug 20 2024 24 mins  
Send us a text This is Have The Nerve Shorts - the short episodes between the long ones where we talk about things From The Internet, you can Get To Know Your Body and there might be even Something To Think About. In this episode Laura Burling, Heidi Haydon and Susan Wood discuss @uksecrettravel_'s TikTok where they recall an anonymous post made by someone on the Ultimate World Cru

Episode 44: What It Is Like To Be A Researcher In Spinal Cord Injury?

Aug 06 2024 78 mins  
Send us a text Getting research off the ground is probably more complex than you'd expect. Doctor Claire Boswell-Ruys is a physiotherapist and senior research fellow at Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA) and has worked in the area of spinal cord injuries for the past 20 years. We talk about all things research, we discuss what it takes to set up a research trial, how it's fund

Episode 43: Something To Think About - Why Invest In Medical Research for Spinal Cord Injury?

Jul 17 2024 30 mins  
Send us a text This is Have The Nerve Shorts - The short episodes between the longer ones. However, today isn't short at all #SorryNotSorry. Duncan Wallace, Executive Director of SpinalCure Australia is on to chat about why you should consider investing in medical research for spinal cord injury and why you should consider the next generation of medical researchers. Having a spinal

Episode 42: Get To Know Your Body - Falls Prevention

Jul 03 2024 17 mins  
Send us a text This is Have The Nerve Shorts - the short episodes between the long ones where we talk about things From The Internet, you can Get To Know Your Body and there might be even Something To Think About. In this episode Physiotherapist Colbey Van Leeuwen talks about falls prevention for upper limbs and lower limbs. How much do you know about the vestibular system? How can

Episode 41: From The Internet - Thoughts and Prayers

May 29 2024 27 mins  
Send us a text This is Have The Nerve Shorts - the short episodes between the long ones where we talk about things From The Internet, you can Get To Know Your Body and there might be even Something To Think About. In this episode Laura Burling, Heidi Haydon and Susan Wood discuss Senator Jordon Steele-John's TikTok video when he shared the story of someone attempting to heal his di