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Featured on ABC News
🌿My twin sister Nicole and I were recently featured on ABC News, sharing our story as part of a new Australian-led twin study exploring the fascinating question: are our immune systems shaped more by our genes, or by our lives? Nicole was diagnosed with Crohn's disease at 11, and I was diagnosed with MS at 24 — and yet today, we are both in remission. Research like this is exactly what continues to inspire my work with women navigating chronic illness and autoimmune conditions. The science is catching up to what I have observed in the clinic for years — that our environment, our nervous system, and the way we live shape our health in profound ways. Nicole and I volunteer with Twins Australia to support studies like this one.

📖 Read the full ABC News article here →

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I had no choice but to succeed.

How a woman left PARALYSED by multiple sclerosis aged 29 beat the odds to run again in just eight weeks.

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Dara Shashoua and Amanda Campbell are kickass women living with MS

And they want to help others living with a chronic illness or disability to believe in what can be possible.

Check out their blog featured, by Business Chicks in honour of World MS Day 2021.

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How one woman hit back at Multiple Sclerosis.

‘I Was Told I Had A 50/50 Chance Of Walking Again – I Ran In 8 Weeks’.

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Richelle Hunt’s show - World MS Day

Amanda is a guest on Richelle Hunt’s show on ABC Radio, talking about this year’s theme ‘my invisible symptoms’ for World MS Day 2019.

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I am Woman Project

Catherine is known in her community as an innovative leader and creative entrepreneur who specialises in helping people reach their goals and dreams.

Catherine Plano is here today with Amanda Campbell. By the age of 36, Amanda Campbell has experienced more than most people do in a lifetime. In 2004 at just 24, she was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, and in 2009 suffered a major attack that left her paralysed.

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Chronic Entrepreneur

Amanda Campbell personifies the term ‘entrepreneur’. Diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis at age 24, it wasn’t until she turned 29 and had an MS attack that left her paralysed, that she began to redefine who she was and live life on her own terms.

Since then she has launched a number of successful businesses, all with the mission of helping others live full and healthy lives. She is an avid learner, having completed a number of degrees and working as an accredited sports kinesiologist, and works as an ambassador for MS Limited.

She’s the founder of Bend Like Bamboo – one of Australia’s leading kinesiology practices. She shares her story and journey to where she is today with us below.

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MS Dream Home Lottery

Amanda is proud to be an Ambassador for this years Dream Home Lottery for MS Limited Australia

"I found MS Limited who guided me through the shock of my diagnosis and gave me any resources that I needed to help me feel supported. Thanks to campaigns like DHL, these services exist for newly diagnosed people to get through what can be the hardest time of their lives." -Amanda

Proceeds from the MS Dream Home Lottery provide support to thousands of Australians living with MS.

 
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House of Wellness features Amanda as House Hero

Choosing to focus on what she wanted, instead of what she didn’t, was the attitude that helped Amanda Campbell come out on top in her recovery from a debilitating MS attack.

In 2009, Multiple Sclerosis (MS) left Amanda Campbell with severe paralysis. “I would stare at the ceiling wondering what had just happened when moments ago I was living my life, building my business, out with friends,” she says. “I was in my 20s and in my prime.”

With the left side of her body almost completely paralysed and with little response to standard MS therapy, doctors told Amanda she may never walk again.

It was Amanda’s twin Nicole who refused to accept defeat for her beloved sister. “One night Nicole threw me in my wheelchair and wheeled me down to the pub across the road,” she says. “We laughed and laughed and forgot about the 24/7 hell that was my reality at that time.”

It was that night that something very special happened to Amanda. “I was clearly having fun with my friends, having dinner, feeling joy,” she recalls. “I came back to my room, my sister helped me into my pyjamas and then she went off to the bathroom. It was then that my toe moved for the first time. It was in that moment that I found hope.”

“So with a wonderful team of doctors, neuro-physiotherapists and the help of a kinesiologist, plus a lot of determination, I started to focus all of my energy on what I wanted instead of what I didn’t want. I walked and ran within six weeks.”

Now Amanda runs her own business helping others find their path to recovery. Reflecting on her own experiences, Amanda says that “what you learn from those lessons teaches you the person that you need to be to then live the life that you dream of.”