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This study aims to understand if and how physical therapists (PTs) and occupational therapists (OTs) use activity-based therapy (ABT) and its associated technologies for the rehabilitation of individuals living with spinal cord injury or disease (SCI/D) in Canadian rehabilitation hospital settings.

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 it is published. Health Standards Organization (HSO) will use the feedback to improve the standard with guidance from the Technical Committee overseeing the development.

This article seeks to describe the status of spinal cord stimulation (SCS) research for the improvement of motor, sensory and autonomic function for individuals living with a spinal cord injury (SCI).

From a heartfelt welcome from ISCoS President Ruth Marshall, to the opening plenary lecture from world-renowned surgeon-scientist Dr. Charles Tator, it was an amazing four days of learning, connecting and sharing knowledge at the ISCoS 60th Annual Scientific Meeting.

Join us in the virtual ISCoS Exhibition Hall for Fireside Chats at the Praxis booth. This year, we are hosting two conversations to support shared learning and collaboration among the global SCI community.

Praxis is proud to congratulate the Engineers in Scrubs (EIS) team at the University of British Columbia for winning the MDDC Human Factors Award for their innovative technology, The Altruo System.

Artificial intelligence (AI), wearable cameras and 3D sensors, and a mixed-reality video game. The award recipients of the first-ever Spinal Cord Rehab Innovation Challenge, held in partnership between Praxis Spinal Cord Institute and MaRS Discovery District, are harnessing these innovative approaches to measure the impact of rehabilitation activities on improving function for people with a spinal cord injury (SCI).

A team of spinal cord injury (SCI) researchers, research users, and funders, including Praxis' Consumer Engagement Lead John Chernesky, has partnered to co-develop the ‘Integrated Knowledge Translation (IKT) Guiding Principles for Conducting and Disseminating Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) Research in Partnership’.

Focusing on the patient and family experience was key to Hamilton’s Regional Rehabilitation Centre's successful re-accreditation. We spoke to Mirela Anton, RN, one of the leads on the accreditation team at RRC to learn more about what the team did differently this time around.