February 2010
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Trainees receive poster awards at ICORD Annual Research Meeting
Poster awards are an important and valued part of the ICORD Annual Research Meeting. Through the support of generous donors, we were able to provide poster awards to ICORD trainees in three categories at our February 3-4 meeting.
The ICORD Trainee Award is for the best poster presented by an ICORD trainee at the Masters Student [...]
Travelling Health Fair comes to Blusson Spinal Cord Centre
This event is presented by the UBC Department of Health, Safety and Environment.
All UBC Staff and Faculty are welcome.
Friday March 5, 9:00- 4:30 pm
Sign up online to book your individual appointment for:
nutritional health, focused on weight loss;
nutritional health, focused on eating for energy and boosting your immune system;
depression screenings;
cardiovascular health assessment (blood pressure, body-mass [...]
ICORD researchers invent helmet that significantly reduces forces to neck during head-first impact
ICORD researchers, Dr. Peter Cripton, Director of the UBC Injury Biomechanics Laboratory, and PhD candidate, Tim Nelson, have invented a sports helmet that reduces direct impact to the neck by up to 56 per cent, according to preliminary tests. Dubbed Pro-Neck-TorTM, the patent-pending technology features a movable inner shell that guides the head to tilt [...]
