The Spin Magazine - Spinal Cord Injury BC

Game On! Para Pickleball Gains Popularity

With pickleball’s recent rise in popularity, SCI BC and Fraser Valley Wheelchair Sports are working together to ensure everyone can take a swing at this exciting sport.

Ask InfoLine: Accessible Dental Care

GF Strong clinicians Bonnie Venables and Shannon Sproule have both seen their share of burns sustained by SCI BC Peers, and offer some important advice about treating and avoiding them.

Know Your Rights: How WorkSafeBC is Supporting Workers with Disabilities

Members of the BC SCI Network and WorkSafeBC are teaming up to help address employment-related safety challenges facing people with disabilities.

Fighting Fatigue

Living with SCI can be exhausting—literally. Chronic fatigue affects up to half of people with SCI, and a new study reveals which treatments actually help, and why we still need better answers.

Ask the Spin Doctor: Toe Spasticity

Curled toes? Spastic feet after spinal cord injury? OT Rachel Abel shares what’s behind it and the range of options that may help, including stretching, medications, Botox, neurotomy and toe spacers.

Failing Forward

A conversation with UBC and ICORD researchers Kip Kramer and Paulina Scheuren about the opportunities, solutions, and lessons learned from the “failures” of SCI clinical trials.