SCI Health Forum: Keeping Healthy for the Road Ahead

Join us for our next SCI Health Forum: Keeping Healthy for the Road Ahead to expand your knowledge about staying healthy and resilient throughout your SCI journey—no matter where you’re starting from! We’ll share practical information from clinicians, researchers, and SCI peers for staying healthy and mobile wherever your road takes you.

The SCI Health Forum is an annual event presented by SCI BC. Rehab clinicians and researchers will share client education. People living with SCI in the community will share their strategies to help you deal with the challenges of SCI life.

Format:

1. Presentations and Q&A with clinicians and researchers.

This year’s speakers include three members of GF Strong Rehab Centre’s Spinal Cord Injury program:

• Dr. Viet Vu, DO, SCI Physiatrist – Keeping Healthy with SCI
• Dr. Krassioukov, MD, PhD, SCI Physiatrist – Bladder Health
• Amrit Dhaliwal, BScPT Advanced Practice Physiotherapist – Upper limbs

2. SCI Peer Panel where peers will share how they changed some aspect related to managing their SCI and living healthy to preserve function or improve health in the long run.

Light supper and refreshments provided for in-person attendees.

When: 5:30 – 8 pm (presentations start at 6 pm) on Thursday, February 27.

Where: ONLINE (Zoom) and IN PERSON (Blusson Spinal Cord Centre, Vancouver).

Registration: Register to attend ONLINE | Register to attend IN PERSON

Questions? Email Avery at aalbrecht@sci-bc.ca.