Development of priorities for a Canadian strategy to advance activity-based therapies after spinal cord injury.

Study Design: Participatory design.

Objectives: Activity-based therapies (ABT) have physical and psychosocial benefits for individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI). A Canadian ABT summit was held to: (1) identify methods used in stroke rehabilitation that may be appropriate for SCI; (2) understand the current state of ABT activities in Canada; and (3) identify priorities for ABT research and care for the next five years.

Cardiovascular Stress During Inpatient Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation.

Objectives: (1) To measure the amount of cardiovascular stress, self-reported physical activity, and accelerometry-measured physical activity by individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI) during physical therapy (PT) and occupational therapy (OT); and (2) to investigate the relations between these measures.

Design: Observational study.

Setting: Two inpatient SCI rehabilitation centers.

Spinal cord injury rehabilitation in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: time to rehabilitation admission, length of stay and functional independence.

Objectives: (1) To describe functional status, length of stay (LOS) and time to rehabilitation admission trends. (2) To identify independent predictors of motor function following rehabilitation.

Study Design: Retrospective cohort study.

Physical activity outside of structured therapy during inpatient spinal cord injury rehabilitation.

Background: Little information exists on the content of inpatient rehabilitation stay when individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI) are not engaged in structured rehabilitation therapy sessions. Investigation of inpatient therapy content is incomplete without the context of activities outside of this time. We sought to quantify physical activity occurring outside of physical therapy (PT) and occupational therapy (OT) sessions during inpatient SCI rehabilitation and examine how this activity changes over time from admission to discharge.

Movement repetitions in physical and occupational therapy during spinal cord injury rehabilitation.

Study Design: Longitudinal observational study.

Objective: To quantify the amount of upper- and lower-extremity movement repetitions (that is, voluntary movements as part of a functional task or specific motion) occurring during inpatient spinal cord injury (SCI), physical (PT) and occupational therapy (OT), and examine changes over the inpatient rehabilitation stay.

Setting: Two stand-alone inpatient SCI rehabilitation centers.