SCI Care: What Really Matters

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the fourth episode of series two of SCI Care: What Really Matters. This week Dr Jennifer Coker steps in as the podcast host to interview her friend, colleague and mentor Dr Susie Charlifue on the role of the caregiver and why it is essential to attend the ISCoS annual scientific meeting. In this episode, Dr Charlifue shares the beginning of her research career, which st...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the third episode of series two of SCI Care: What Really Matters. This week's guest is Dr Tony DiMarco, a leading respiratory physician who realised that people with high spinal cord injuries need help with breathing, resulting in the development of the endoscopic placement of diaphragmatic electrodes to enable patients to come off ventilators. In this episode, Pro...

Send us Fan Mail Here is the next instalment of SCI Care: What Really Matters Series 2.  In this episode, Prof Ruth Marshall is joined by Dr Harvinder Chhabra, immediate past president of ISCoS and former host of this podcast to discuss infection-related myelopathy. Although it's a subject that has been around for a long time, there remains a lot of work to be done in terms of management, dia...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to SCI Care: What Really Matters Series 2 and our very first episode of this series. As we celebrate 60 years of the International Spinal Cord Society (ISCoS) we will reflect on where we came from, where we are and what the future may hold for SCI Care. We invite you to join us for our 60th Anniversary Annual Scientific Meeting this September.   And what better way to star...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to SCI Care: What Really Matters Series 2 as we continue to rethink current trends & the future potential of Spinal Cord Injury Management and cover SCI Care and all that really matters. As we celebrate 60 years of the International Spinal Cord Society (ISCoS) we will reflect on where we came from, where we are and what the future may hold for SCI Care. We invite you t...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to SCI Care: What really matters, a new podcast brought to you by the International Spinal Cord Society (ISCoS). A podcast series to rethink current trends & the future potential of Spinal Cord Injury Management and cover SCI Care and all that really matters. With each episode, we will speak with experts from all over the world to discuss various aspects of spinal cord...

Send us Fan Mail Join Prof Ruth Marshall and Dr Harvinder Chhabra for the final episode in series one of SCI Care: What Really Matters as they discuss the success of the 59th ISCoS annual scientific meeting from the concerns and apprehensions of going fully virtual to the pleasant surprises and highlights of what worked.  As well as the benefits of a fully virtual and the potential of future hybri...

Send us Fan Mail In this Episode Join ISCoS President Dr Chhabra and ISCoS President-Elect, Prof Ruth Marshall as they discuss everything ISCoS past, present and future.  Prof Marshall discusses and provides an overview of Dr Chhabra's presidency and all he has achieved in this time and his time as an ISCoS member since 1993 and his career. Prof Marshall also discusses the continuation of exi...

Send us Fan Mail Prof Michael Fehlings and Dr Patrick Kluger join Dr Chhabra to discuss the 'Current scenario of Spinal Cord Injury services: The need for developing a grading system to standardize the services' within their regions and globally.  In this episode: 3:50 Q1 . What are the existing models of spinal cord injury services?  9:59 Q2. What are the benefits of grading and standar...

Send us Fan Mail In this Episode: In this week's bonus episode, guest host, Dr Ellen-Merete Hagen chats with Varun Khullar also known as DJ Aamish in this uplifting and inspiring interview as they discuss his life after spinal cord injury.  Varun talks about the aftermath, impact and challenges he has faced since he was involved in a life-changing accident in 2014.  Varun has faced this adver...

Send us Fan Mail This week Prof Ruth Marshall and ISCoS president-elect steps in as host to chat with her long time friend and colleague Prof David Berlowitz . Prof Berlowitz is a Physiotherapist with the Victorian Respiratory Support Service who holds the University of Melbourne Chair in Physiotherapy at Austin Health and will be giving the inaugural Anthony DiMarco lecture for this year’s ISCoS...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, the following question is answered : ‘The Nursing SIG has been actively working to improve Nursing Management of Spinal Cord Injuries through various education initiatives. Are you happy with the available evidence in literature with regard to Nursing Management of SCI? What are the activities of the SIG to promote research in this field?' Thank you for liste...

Send us Fan Mail Dr Chhabra is joined by Prof Lisa Harvey, Editor-in-Chief of Spinal Cord and Dr Marcalee Alexander Editor-in-Chief of Spinal Cord Series and Cases to discuss top tips on getting your work published.  How and why you are submitting research, what to think about when you do, what to do with reviewer feedback and the next steps you should take. There are many excellent nuggets of adv...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the fourth episode of our Bitesize bonus track for SCI Care: What Really Matters.  This week we published the 7th episode of our podcast series with a lively and incredibly insightful discussion with Prof Stanley Duchrame and Dr Jane Duff on ‘Overcoming adversity after spinal cord injury – a positive psychology perspective.’ Following on from this discussion we are now...

Send us Fan Mail Prof Stanley Duchrame, Clinical Psychologists at Boston University Medical Center and a Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine at Boston University School of Medicine and Dr Jane Duff, Clinical Psychologist at the National Spinal Injuries Center, Stoke Mandeville Hospital and European Spinal Psychologists Association join Dr Chhabra to discuss a psychology perspective of overcoming...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the third episode of our Bitesize bonus track for SCI Care: What Really Matters. We are joined by Ulla Bergner, Head of the Physiotherapy SCI Department, Trauma Center Murnau, Germany and Chair of the International Network of SCI Physiotherapists (SCIPT). In the episode: Ulla gives her view as she answers the following question: ‘What are the main challenges faced by ph...

Send us Fan Mail In part two of this discussion on 'Challenges in the comprehensive management of persons with SCI,' Dr Chhabra is joined by Dr Federico Montero, representative of Latin American Society of Paraplegia (SLAP) and Ms. Elma Burger, representative of Africa Spinal Cord Network (AFSCIN) to discuss the challenges, factors and overcoming challenges within their region.  In this...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the second episode of our Bitesize bonus track for SCI Care: What Really Matters. We are joined by Nicola (Nicky) Hunter a Senior Occupational Therapist (OT) for the State-Wide spinal unit, WA.  Nicky graduated as an Occupational Therapist in 1986 and has been working in her chosen field of Spinal Cord Injury management for the past 20 years. She has community based exp...

Send us Fan Mail Dr Nazirah Hasnan and Stephen Muldoon, representatives of Asian Spinal Cord Network (ASCoN) and Dr Rami Al Ahmar, representative of Middle East North Africa Spinal Cord Injury (MENASCI) network join Dr Chhabra for part one of discussing challenges in the comprehensive management of persons with SCI with a specific focus on Asia Spinal Cord Network (ASCON) and middle East North Afr...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the first Bitesize track of SCI Care: What really matters. SCI Care: What really matters is now a weekly fixture for our ISCoS members, audience, and beyond. The aim of this podcast series is to engage with our members and entice non-members to join in on our conversation whilst sharing the insights and experiences of experts from the field of SCI Care from all over the...

Send us Fan Mail This week's episode is our part two of 'Exiting the Lockdown: Implications for SCI Care.' Dr Chhabra is joined with Dr Tara Jeji, Dr James Milligan, Dr Rainer Abel and Dr Allison Graham as they conclude this discussion. In this episode: 2:18 Q1.  As we exit the lockdown would the principles of management be any different? 23:00 Q2. Once restrictions ease, an enormou...

Send us Fan Mail This week's episode is our part one discussion of 'Exiting the Lockdown: Implications for SCI Care.' Dr Chhabra continues to explore the impact Covid-19 is having on the services for the spinal cord injured. He is joined with Dr Tara Jeji, Dr James Milligan, Dr Rainer Abel and Dr Allison Graham to discuss this further.  In this episode:  3:36 Q1.  Why are confinemen...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to part two of our discussion on 'COVID-19: Current knowledge and best practices an SCI - a multidisciplinary view' with James Middleton, Australia, Carlotte Kiekens, Italy, Francois Theron, South Africa, Lizzie Thomas-Davies and Ian Benson,  Please note the opinions of our host and guests are their own. In our first episode, we covered: why spinal cord inju...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to part one of our first episode, we are joined by James Middleton, Australia, Carlotte Kiekens, Italy, Francois Theron, South Africa, Lizzie Thomas-Davies and Ian Benson, UK to discuss Covid-19 and SCI Care with our very own President and host Dr Harvinder Chhabra, India. 6 experts from 5 different countries in real-time! The opinions of our host and guests are their own....