A BBC story about a man with SCI who can walk again after receiving a new therapy has been in the news over the past couple of days. The story reports that Darek Fidyka, a 40-year-old Polish man who sustained Read More…
Blog Archives: Research Studies
Wheelchair Skills Training In Canada
| 4 commentsLynda Bennett Learning to use a manual wheelchair can be like learning to ride a bike: through trial and error. Think about the skills you’d need to operate a wheelchair effectively in the community and how long it would it Read More…
Helmets significantly reduce the risk of head injury in cycling accidents
| 0 commentsBy: Reanne Li Original Article: Cripton, P.A., Dressler, D.M., Stuart, C.A., Dennison, C.R., Richards, D. (2014). Bicycle helmets are highly effective at preventing head injury during head impact: Head-form accelerations and injury criteria for helmeted and unhelmeted impacts. Accident Analysis and Read More…
Pushing ahead: an easier way
| 0 commentsLynda Bennett Have you ever tried to push yourself in a manual wheelchair? Did you know that the energy required to propel the chair forward (mechanical efficiency) is less than ten percent effective? How would you design a wheelchair that Read More…
Electrical stimulation of the spinal cord enables voluntary muscle movements in people with chronic spinal cord injury.
| 3 commentsDamian Feldman-Kiss Original Article: C. A. Angeli, V. R. Edgerton, Y. P. Gerasimenko and S. J. Harkema (2014). Altering spinal cord excitability enables voluntary movements after chronic complete paralysis in humans. Brain, 137(5), 1394-1409. Find the original article here. Summary: Complete paralysis is the Read More…
Dietary restriction started after spinal cord injury improves functional recovery
| 0 commentsRuth Lin Original article: Plunet, W. T., Streijger, F., Lam, C. K., Lee, J. H., Liu, J., & Tetzlaff, W. (2008). Dietary restriction started after spinal cord injury improves functional recovery. Experimental neurology, 213(1), 28-35. Find the original article here. Summary: In Read More…
Using the unbiased perspectives of people living with a SCI in assessments of mobility
| 0 commentsBy Lynda Bennett Original article: H Booth, LA Harvey, S Denis, D Barratt, GT Allison and RD Adams. “Using the unbiased perspectives of people living with a spinal cord injury in assessments of mobility” Spinal Cord (2013) 51, 843–846; doi:10.1038/sc.2013.100; Read More…
Changes in the structure of the spinal cord after surgical decompression
| 0 commentsBy Jennifer Pisarek This is the summary of a paper published by a researcher from the Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Orthopaedics, ICORD researchers, and a researcher from the Combined Neurosurgical and Orthopaedic Spine Program. Original article: Jones et al. Read More…
Research in Focus: Stem Cells
| 5 commentsBy Gabrielle John Research in focus aims to profile and translate research that has been reviewed by highly respected peers in the field of spinal cord injury to the community, as a means to maintain community engagement with on going Read More…
Managing fatigue following spinal cord injury
| 12 commentsBy Jennifer Pisarek This is a summary of a paper published by researchers from the Department of Occupational Science and Therapy, ICORD, and the British Columbia Paraplegic Association from Vancouver, Canada in the journal Disability and Rehabilitation. Original article: Hammel Read More…
