Florence Lemay

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So far The Par-QoL team has created 205 blog entries.

Pan-Am Games set to Launch !

The Parapan Am Games will launch on August 7th in Toronto. The Games will feature 1,608 athletes from 28 countries competing in 15 sports.Dr. Gaétan Tardif , President, Canadian Paralympic Committee, and Program Medical Director, Toronto Rehab, talks about what it means for Canadian athletes to compete in Toronto. He encourages everyone to experience some [...]

By | 2018-06-28T09:39:26-04:00 August 5th, 2015|Blog|

PAR-QOL APRIL NEWSLETTER 2015

Wednesday April 29, 2015 The PAR-QoL tool-kit was honored to have Dr. Jaimie Borisoff (Canada Research Chair in Rehabilitation Engineering Design - British Columbia Institute of Technology) participate in our Spring ‘Ask An Expert’ Spotlight event. This event allowed visitors to the site to pose Dr. Borisoff questions about his perspectives in the field of SCI [...]

By | 2018-06-28T11:53:32-04:00 April 29th, 2015|Newsletters|

Preventing and Treating Pressure Sores: A Guide for People with Spinal Cord Injuries

The Ontario Neurotrauma Foundation funded Spinal Cord Injury Ontario to develop and release a consumer guide for people with Spinal Cord Injury on preventing and treating pressure sores. This new guide is based on the 2013 Canadian Best Practice Guidelines for the Prevention and Management of Pressure Ulcers in People with Spinal Cord Injury. The guide contains valuable [...]

By | 2018-06-14T15:45:48-04:00 April 20th, 2015|Blog|

Ask an Expert: Spotlight on Dr. Jaimie Borisoff

Mar 02, 2015 NOW OPEN FOR QUESTIONS: ASK AN EXPERT! SPOTLIGHT ON DR. JAIMIE BORISOFF The PAR-QoL team is proud to present an expert spotlight event with Dr. Jaimie Borisoff is Canada Research Chair in Rehabilitation Engineering Design at the Bristish Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) in Burnaby and the International Collaboration on Repair Discoveries (ICORD) in [...]

By | 2018-06-28T09:54:31-04:00 March 2nd, 2015|News & events|