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Best Practices Resource Helps Deliver Right Care at Right Time

August 6, 2024

Implementing evidence-based best practices in SCI clinical care ensures maximum functionality and cord recovery with fewer secondary complications following the injury. This…

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Implementing Lived Experience Workshops in Regional Areas of British Columbia to Enhance Clinicians’ Confidence in Spinal Cord Injury Care: An Evaluation

August 2, 2024

In British Columbia (BC), there are challenges accessing specialized spinal cord injury care and resources. This paper evaluated the impact of spinal…

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Epidemiology, Evidence-Based Care, and Outcomes in Spinal Cord Injury

June 17, 2024

We are pleased to share this edition published by Frontiers in Neurology. The publication is dedicated to sharing progress in the epidemiology,…

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Pressure Research Delivers Life Changing Tech and Clinical Best Practices

June 5, 2024

Maintaining adequate spinal cord perfusion pressure (SCPP), for the circulation of blood to the spinal cord at the time of injury and…

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Special Issue: AO Spine & Praxis Spinal Cord Institute Guidelines for the Management of Acute Spinal Cord Injury

May 15, 2024

The Praxis-AO Spine Acute SCI Guidelines make sure that best practices in care are available widely, to standardize SCI care across B.C., Canada, and internationally. Developed in part from Praxis-supported and…

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Implementing Activity-Based Therapy for Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation in Canada: Challenges and Proposed Solutions

April 8, 2024

Activity-based therapy (ABT) is a therapeutic approach with multiple benefits including promoting neurorecovery and reducing the likelihood of secondary complications in people…

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A look at Spinal Cord Injury in Canada in 2021

January 12, 2024

Published in 2023, The RHSCIR network report is a detailed look at clinical and demographic data collected from 682 tSCI and 466…

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Enabling Knowledge Translation: Implementation of a Web-based Tool for Independent Walking Prediction After Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury

December 13, 2023

Several clinical prediction rules (CPRs) have been published, but few are easily accessible or convenient for clinicians to use in practice. We…

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Association of CSF and Serum Neurofilament Light and Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein, Injury Severity, and Outcome in Spinal Cord Injury

October 4, 2023

Traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) is highly heterogeneous, and tools to better delineate pathophysiology and recovery are needed. Our objective was to…

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Spinal Cord Injury Community Personal Opinions and Perspectives on Spinal Cord Stimulation

June 20, 2023

Spinal cord stimulation (SCS) clinical trials are evaluating its efficacy and safety for motor, sensory, and autonomic recovery following spinal cord injury…

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An International Survey of the Structure and Process of Care for Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury in Acute and Rehabilitation Facilities: Lessons Learned From a Pilot Study

March 27, 2023

The publication describes the key findings and lessons learned from an international pilot study that surveyed spinal cord injury programs in acute…

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Technology Used in Activity Based Therapy for Individuals Living with Spinal Cord Injury Across Canada

March 27, 2023

The objective of this study was to describe the equipment used in activity-based therapy (ABT) programs for individuals with spinal cord injury…