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Masters of Physical Therapy Program – Victoria Cohort (Spinal Cord Injury Lab)

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Commitment: One-time

Connection method: In-person

Open to Vancouver Island Region

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Spinal Cord Injury Lab
When: Thursday April 23rd 3:00-4:30pm
Where: Vancouver Island Tech Park (#3161 – 4464 Markham Street) In-person

Dx Criteria: To facilitate the learning objectives in the session, we are ideally looking for patient partners with complete SCI at the Paraplegic Level (T spine level T3-T10 AIS A).

Tasks in lab: Ideally, we would be asking the patient partners to demonstrate sliding board transfers from w/c to plinth, rolling on plinth, supine lie – sit, sitting balance activities on a mat. The patient partners should be aware that students may ask to perform a motor or sensory assessment on them and feel things like ROM and spasticity if the patient partner is comfortable with this and consents. Students in the lab will be supervised by two registered physiotherapists, as well as one of our faculty members.

Compensation: Volunteer patient partners are given a small gift card for their time.

Level of Engagement

This opportunity is at the level of Inform on the IAP2 Spectrum of Public Participation.

Eligibility

  • Willing & comfortable to share health care experiences in a group setting
  • Comfort with public speaking
  • Specific health care experiences [details below]
  • An interest in improving health care services
Patient Partners ARE NOT required to be PVN members to participate in this engagement opportunity.

Health Care Partner Contact Information

Mandy Young Community Engagement Coordinator, Patient and Community Partnership for Education | UBC Health (604) 822-8002 mandy.young@ubc.ca

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