2019-08-06 S&O Agenda - Item 4 - Attachment 1 - Peregian Digital Hub E-newsletters

The Hub's coffee kiosk is also open to the public. Users of the Peregian Beach Community House and
visitors to the nearby medical facilities can now drop by the Co-Op and get the brew of their choice
whilst checking their email on the Hub's gigabit wifi connection.


Noosa Today Article




GravityFit Lifts Off With Commercialisation Grant And
New Home At The Hub
It’s not commonly known that going into space is actually terrible for your spine and joint health. After
spending a concentrated amount of time in space, astronauts are actually unable to walk off the shuttle
when they land. They have to literally be carried off to undergo extensive rehabilitation and often sustain
long-term damage to their bodies.


Dr. Carolyn Richardson has spent her working life investigating how gravity affects our health and why
this phenomenon occurs in space. Her research with the University of Queensland, European Space
Agency and NASA regarding the effect of gravity on our muscles and bones has laid the foundation for
finding out why this happens and how to fix it.


It is this research that underpins GravityFit, the Noosa-based company run by Dr Richardson's son,
David and his wife, Kirsty. The company has become famous amongst elite athletes, especially golfers,
for its range of exercise tools. Last Friday, Member for Wide Bay Llew O'Brien presented $478,950 to
GravityFit as part of the Accelerating Commercialisation grant.

The money will allow the local company to commercialise production of its G-Suit an intelligent training
garment for athletes and astronauts. The G-Suite is being tested by elite athletes from various codes as
part of their training regime. Its compression function puts more gravity sensory information into the body
and stimulate those deep muscles and stabilises spines and limbs during training and stimulates muscle
memory to aid performance and reduce injury.


News release