PeerSAY: Top 10 Things I Wish My Doctor Understood About SCI
How much does your doctor know about SCI? If you’re like one of the peers we chatted with, chances are they don’t know enough (and that’s if you have a primary care doctor in the first place). When it comes to your health and wellness, you deserve a doctor who is trustworthy, a good listener, and knows a thing or two (and hopefully more) about SCI.
Ask the Spin Doctor: Managing Menstruation
Natasha Prodan-Bhalla, Nurse Practitioner, from the Access Clinic at BC Women’s Hospital shares what you need to know about managing your menstrual cycle.
Ask the Spin Doctor: Menopause
Have questions about menopause? Dr. Viet Vu gives the lowdown on SCI, menopause and aging well.
Fly Like a Bird!
It’s not every day that you look up and see a wheelchair in the sky. But with modern technology, a supportive community and one man’s bucket list, adaptive paragliding may soon be coming to the sky near you.
Matters of the Heart
A new study is underway to find out if there are differences between the male and female heart after spinal cord injury.
Goal-Getters
Build confidence and achieve your health-related goals with support from SCI BC’s new Peer Health Coaching Program.
Reach the Beach
In the space of just two years, Christian Bagg’s Bowhead Reach electric aMTB has become an international success story.
Ask the Spin Doctor: Weight Loss
Dr. Ian Rigby serves up some weight loss strategies.
Raw Deal
A recently published research report lays bare, province by province, how our country’s universal health care program is failing people with SCI—and how the situation in BC is among the worst in Canada.
Sea Change
Access to commercial seaplane service in BC appears to be improving in one fell swoop, thanks to some willing captains of the industry, a unique made-in-BC accessibility device, and the tenacity of one SCI BC peer.
Rehab for Rehab
Our systems for hospital and community-based rehabilitation and recovery are in need of their own rehabilitation.
Conceiving A New Treatment For Male SCI Infertility
A new clinical trial is examining the use of an inexpensive oral medication to treat an infertility issue experienced by most men with SCI.