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Building Trust and Culturally Safe Care for Indigenous Communities

Building trust is essential to improving health outcomes for Indigenous Peoples living with spinal cord injury. Through partnerships with Indigenous leaders, researchers,…
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Request for Proposal SCI Adopt: Rapid Clinical Implementation of Transcutaneous Spinal Stimulation (TSS) at Canadian clinics providing rehabilitation services

Praxis Spinal Cord Institute is seeking proposals to support the rapid clinical implementation of transcutaneous spinal stimulation (TSS) in Canada. This funding…
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Request for Proposal TSS Clinical Advisor: Services to Deliver Training Materials & Education for Clinical Implementation of Transcutaneous Spinal Stimulation (TSS)

Praxis Spinal Cord Institute is seeking a Clinical Advisor to provide expert clinical guidance and strategic support for the Translation to Sustainable…
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Wound Healing Awareness Month: From Innovation to Impact Praxis is Accelerating Pressure Wound Solutions for Canadians with SCI

Pressure injuries remain one of the most common and costly secondary health complications experienced by people living with spinal cord injury. Most…
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Characterizing the Context of Spinal Cord Injury-Inclusive Community-based Organizations to Build Capacity for Research Partnerships: An Environmental Scan

Spinal cord injury community organizations play an important role in ensuring research is relevant, practical, and responsive to the needs of people…
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Can Large Language Models Answer Questions about Spinal Cord Injury? Risks, Challenges, and Opportunities—A Narrative Review

Researchers reviewed how large language models (LLMs), including AI chatbots such as ChatGPT, respond to spinal cord injury (SCI)-related health questions. The…
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Review and assessment of policies and practices for spinal cord injury-related health care supplies, services, and mobility equipment reveal wide inequities and inadequacies in Canada

The involvement of people with lived experience (PLEX) of spinal cord injury (SCI) is not common during medical innovation design, research and…
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How PLEX Perspectives Shaped Tarkka’s Approach to Evidence, Adoption, and Market Entry

Through the Praxis SCI Incubate Program, Tarkka discovered that successful adoption depends on more than regulatory milestones. Insights from people with lived…
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Designing for Healing, Building for Reality: DeCell’s Journey to Rethink Pressure Ulcers Through Lived Experience

When DeCell joined the Praxis SCI Incubate Program, they were not looking to redesign the technology itself. They were seeking clarity on…
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From Lab Insight to Lived Reality: How GraspAgain Is Bridging Technology and Everyday Life

GraspAgain entered the Praxis SCI Incubate Program with a strong technical foundation already in place. The team had built a unique AI-enabled…
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From Acute Response to Meaningful Recovery: NeuroHagana’s Human-Centered Approach to Acute SCI Care

NeuroHagana’s journey through the Praxis SCI Incubate Program revealed that meaningful innovation in spinal cord injury care depends on more than breakthrough…
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Building the Bridge: A Conversation on What SCI Innovation Actually Takes 

Thought controlled walking. Neural implants. Headlines that used to read like science fiction are now showing up in clinical trials. The question…
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