In the lastest issue of Neuromatters (Winter 2012, Issue 20 - downlable PDF available here), the newsletter put out by the Ontario Neurotrauma Foundation, there is a spotlight on the Kitchener Mobility Clinic. The Mobility Clinic is an inter-professional clinic that involves a physician, nursing, chiropractic, Occupational Therapy, Social Work and Pharmacy. For those living with a [...]
The Rehabilitation Measures Database (www.rehabmeasures.org) was developed to help clinicians and researchers identify reliable and valid instruments used to assess patient outcomes during all phases of rehabilitation. The database provides evidence-based summaries that include: Concise descriptions of each instrument’s psychometric properties Instructions for administering/scoring each assessment (along with a bibliography with citations linked to PubMed abstracts). Whenever [...]
A new website is on-line which provides a tool that uses the raw test scores determined by the International Standards for Neurological Classification of Spinal Cord Injury (ISNCSI) to electronically score and classify a spinal cord injury (SCI). The site has been developed by the Rick Hansen Institute in partnership with the American Spinal Injury Association (ASIA) and the International Spinal [...]
In our final blog posting of 2012, we thought we would end with some reflections on our work on the PAR-QoL website. It has been an exciting year with a lot accomplished! The website has been fully on-line for one year (core content + the blog, news & events, expert spotlight features), and [...]
The Canadian Paraplegic Association (CPA) first started in 1945 to serve individuals who had returned home from WWII with spinal cord injuries (SCI). There were also a number of veterans with tetraplegia who did not live past a year. For this reason a group of men came together to form the CPA to help [...]
We recently held an expert spotlight event on the PAR-QoL Website with Dr. Vanessa Noonan, Director of Research at the Rick Hansen Institute. Dr. Noonan will be posting her responses to those questions in a few weeks but we also received a few questions specific to the PAR-QoL site. Here are the questions and our answers: [...]
To read the full press release, go to the University Health Network's webpage
Dr. Vanessa Noonan The Participation & Quality of Life (PAR-QoL) Tool-Kit is proud to present our first expert spotlight session with Dr. Vanessa Noonan, Director of Research for the Rick Hansen Institute. Between October 25 and November 16 (2012), visitors to the PAR-QoL website may submit a question to Dr. Noonan to obtain her thoughts about spinal cord injury [...]
Members of the PAR-QoL team attended the 5th National Spinal Cord Injury Conference. This exciting conference highlighted Canadian expertise in the field of SCI as well as from collegues around the world. Exciting keynote speeches were provided by top experts in the field. Dr. John Steeves (founding director of ICORD) was presented with the Champion of Change Award for his tireless [...]
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