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  • Spinal Injury 101: Video series from the Shepherd Center, with backing from the Reeve Foundation and the National Spinal Cord Injury Association. Tutorial videos on SCI, acute management, secondary conditions and more.
  • Living With SCI: Spinal Cord Injury BC resource website, designed to equip you with the basic information you need to be informed and to understand what you will learn in rehab about how your body works after spinal cord injury.
  • Spinal Cord Injury Model System Knowledge Translation Center: The Spinal Cord Injury Model Systems Knowledge Translation Center (MSKTC) is a national center that helps facilitate the knowledge translation process to make research meaningful to those with Spinal Cord Injuries. They developed resources for people with and their supporters, including patient-focused Fact Sheets, slideshows, videos, and research reviews.
  • Paralysis Resource Guide: Paralysis Resource Center free comprehensive guide is an essential tool for everyone living with or impacted by paralysis. You can download copies to your phone, tablet, e-reader or computer, and you can request hard copies be shipped to you. The Paralysis Resource Guide is currently available in print – English or Spanish.
  • United Spinal’s Adjusting To SCI/D Guide: United Spinal’s Assistance in making the adjustment after sustaining a spinal cord injury or disease.
  • Spinal Cord Essentials: Spinal Cord Essentials is a patient and family education initiative from University Health Network – Toronto Rehabilitation Institute’s Brain and Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation Program. This website provides patient education resources with handouts on mobility, bowel and bladder, medical issues, equipment, etc.
  • Northwest Regional Spinal Cord Injury System: The SCI Forum is an evening educational program for persons with SCI and their friends, family members and caregivers, and health care professionals with an interest in SCI. Generally, it is held at the UW Medical Center for in-person attendance and via Zoom. The forums provide current information on a variety of topics relevant to the SCI community. Topics include health related issues in addition to assistive technology, recreation, and research.
  • SPINALpedia: A social mentoring network and video archive that allows the spinal cord injury community to motivate each other with the knowledge and triumphs gained from our individual experiences.
  • SCI Information Database: The SCI Information Database is an online encyclopedia with more than 800 current and comprehensive resources for people with spinal cord injuries, their families, and other stakeholders in British Columbia.
  • SCI-U Courses: SCI-U is a series of 10 multimedia courses on about learning to live with spinal cord injury. The courses have been designed to give you the information you need to live a healthy, active life. They were developed by people who live with SCI, in collaboration with researchers and clinicians.
  • Facing Disability: Website lists 600 of the most important paralysis and spinal cord injury resources on the internet curated especially for people dealing with paralysis – designed to help you find what you need.

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