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Building a UK spinal cord injury strategy - insights from Canada

11 July 2025

The countdown to our Rebuilding Lives conference really kicked off this week, with our international webinar ‘Building a UK SCI…

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Essential Care Passport (ECPs): going through the process

7 March 2024

Our parliamentary and public affairs coordinator, Glyn Hayes shares his experience of using our emergency care plan

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Carol Adcock

31 October 2023

Our specialist nurse lead for north regions Carol Adcock recently won the ‘Above and Beyond’ award in the inaugural Neuro…

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Remembering Baroness Masham of Ilton

20 October 2023

Susan Lilian Primrose Cunliffe-Lister, Countess of Swinton, Baroness Masham of Ilton 1935-2023 Yesterday we joined the family of Baroness Susan…

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But you don't look disabled..

3 August 2023

Wheelchairs have an instant association with disability, but what if your spinal cord injury (SCI) is a hidden one? How does this affect the general public’s perception of your SCI and crucially, your access to services.

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Disability Pride

26 July 2023

With Disability Pride Month in July, our trustee Mark Henderson looks back at the immeasurable impact two activists have had on the disability landscape, and why we are still fighting today

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Occupational therapy

28 April 2023

Meet Susie Wood – SIA’s very own occupational therapist (OT) working as part of our clinical specialist team. Here Susie explains what OT is and what benefits it offers SCI people.

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Body image and acceptance after spinal cord injury

28 April 2023

Self-love coach, nutritionist and yoga teacher, Casey Gemma, shares how her body image changed following SCI and how she has found acceptance of her new physique.

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Religious fasting and spinal cord injury

3 March 2023

With Ramadan now in progress we spoke with Firas Sarhan, SCI Clinical Nurse Specialist at Stoke Mandeville Hospital regarding fasting and what to consider if you are spinal cord injured.

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