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Care, Outcomes Improve Through Best Practices Clinical Tool Praxis-funded online app guides clinical SCI care

Praxis BC interior BC outreach brings best practices for SCI care to remote and rural practitioners. Lived perspectives boost local SCI care.
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Smart Tech Seat Cushion Automates, Relieves and Reduces Pressure Injury Risk for Wheelchair Users

Praxis commercialization program alum, Kalogon has developed a pressure-relieving cushion that helps wheelchair users avoid pressure injuries and pain. Machine learning helps…
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Inaugural SCI Accelerate alum, Rehabtronics Develops Novel Neurostimulation Product to Treat and Prevent Pressure Injuries

Rehabtronics, a BC-based medical start-up and inaugural Praxis SCI Accelerate program alum, has developed a novel neurostimulation medical device to treat and…
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Traumatic Spinal Cord Injuries Among Indigenous and Non-indigenous Peoples of Canada

Indigenous peoples with a spinal cord injury across Canada have different physical, social, and environmental challenges than non-Indigenous populations. More resources should…
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Spinal Cord Stimulation Research in the Restoration of Motor, Sensory, and Autonomic Function for Individuals Living With Spinal Cord Injuries: A Scoping Review

To describe the status of spinal cord stimulation (SCS) research for the improvement of motor, sensory, and autonomic function for individuals living…
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Models of Care Delivery from Rehabilitation to Community for Spinal Cord Injury: A Scoping Review

What models of service delivery, specific to the rehabilitation and lifelong care of persons with SCI exist internationally? The objective of the…
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Mental Health Week 2022

Mental Health Week 2022 #GetReal - focusing on exercise as a tool for supporting mental health and wellness following SCI
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All Over the MAP: Describing Pressure Variability in Acute Spinal Cord Injury

This study examines the feasibility of meeting the current clinical guidelines for the hemodynamic management of acute spinal cord injury (SCI).
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Spinal Cord Stimulation: Lived Experience Perspective

Spinal Cord Stimulation (SCS) is a therapeutic approach used within the research setting with considerable evidence to address the sensory, motor, and…
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Using Activity-based Therapy for Individuals with Spinal Cord Injury or Disease: Interviews with Physical and Occupational Therapists in Rehabilitation Hospitals

This study aims to understand if and how physical therapists (PTs) and occupational therapists (OTs) use activity-based therapy (ABT) and its associated…
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Integrated People-Centred Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation Program up for Public Review

Everyone is welcome to review and comment on the draft CAN/HSO S3402:2022 (E) Integrated People-Centred Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation Program standard before…
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Spinal Cord Stimulation Research in the Restoration of Function for Individuals With SCI: A Scoping Review

This article seeks to describe the status of spinal cord stimulation (SCS) research for the improvement of motor, sensory and autonomic function…
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