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toronto-rehab-logo-largeThe Toronto Rehabilitation Institute is pleased to announce the 4th National Spinal Cord Injury Conference will be held on October 28-30 at the Fallsview Casino Resort, Niagara Falls. Conference organizations invite you to share your knowledge with leaders in spinal cord injury.

Physicians, other clinicians, researchers, nurses, graduate and post-graduate students and persons with spinal cord injury to share new ideas and technologies, innovative programs and research findings by submitting abstracts for workshop and poster presentations. Students are encouraged to participate.

Presentation Formats:

  • Workshops will be offered in two one-hour presentations.
  • Poster presentations are the visual display of a project and will be shown throughout the conference.

All abstracts must fall within one of the following themes: Patient Care, Education and Research. Poster abstracts will be judged by a national panel of judges – awards will be handed out to authors and student authors who receive the top 3 scores in each category. The winning authors will be invited to present their abstract in a 10 minute podium presentation on Saturday, October 30, 2010.

Suggested topics of Interest:

  • Accessibility
  • Assistive technology/devices
  • Bladder or bowel management
  • Community integration
  • Clinical trials
  • Employment
  • Gait and mobility
  • Hand function
  • Leisure activities
  • Patient education
  • Neuropathic pain
  • Drug and alcohol addiction
  • New therapies
  • Outcome measures
  • Outpatient care
  • Parenting
  • Sexuality
  • Wound care

Abstracts must be submitted online. Please go to https://www.confmanager.com/main.cfm?cid=1971&tid=0 to submit your abstract and to learn more about the conference, the abstract contest and guidelines for submission. Deadline for poster/workshop abstract submissions: March 15th, 2010.

For more information about this conference, please contact Toronto Rehab’s Conference Services at 416-597-3422 ext.3693 or by email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it


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