Our Vision

• Working together to facilitate recovery from spinal cord injury

Our Goals

• To provide leadership for spinal cord injury research and treatment strategies

• To facilitate more effective clinical trials in spinal cord injury

• To improve translation of basic and clinical research into evidence-based practice

Our strategy

Established in 2008, the Spinal Cord Injury Network has identified a number of ways to speed the translation of innovative research discoveries into practical benefits for people with spinal cord injury, focusing on five approaches.

• Research Development seeking to improve basic research through promoting collaboration and better information exchange

• Facilitation of Clinical Trials to advance the availability of new treatments for people with spinal cord injury

• Translation of basic and clinical research into Evidence-based Practice as a key to achieving better treatments for people with spinal cord injury

• Identification of priorities through the Spinal Cord Injured People Committee ensuring that people living with spinal cord injury have a research voice

• Working in partnership with other networks such as the SCI Solutions Network (Canada) to ensure early adoption of best practice protocols for rehabilitation, acute care and ongoing health promotion.