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Wellness

  • Fall/Winter 2024, Story Highlights

Keys to Consistency

No matter what your nutritional goal is, the key to achieving it is consistency...
  • Spring/Summer 2024

Don’t Flush Your Holiday Away

Summer vacations are just around the corner! Whether it’s a road trip or heading off on an adventure tour, it’s a time to relax, have fun, soak up the sun and indulge in delicious food. But we all know tucking into rich, spicy local cuisine and/or sipping one too...
  • Fall/Winter 23-24

Broken Record

Over the past 14 years, I have written about the virtues of Vitamin D and, at the risk of sounding like a broken record, I’m once again shining some sunlight on this essential nutrient....
  • Spring 2023

Pura Vida!

If you’ve ever traveled to Costa Rica, you have likely heard the phrase Pura Vida, meaning “pure life”....
  • Fall 2022

The Healing Power of Dance

Nancy Clarke has been a lover of music and dance since she was a little girl, but little did she anticipate gliding along on the dance floor from a wheelchair....
  • Fall 2022

Nutrition for Cognition

The prevalence of concomitant traumatic brain injury (TBI) in people with spinal cord injury is estimated to be nearly 40 percent (Budisin et al 2016). So, for many of us, taking care of our cognitive health is equally as important as preventing and managing the secondary health issues associated...
  • Spring 2022

Nancy Kawaja: Breaking Boundaries

Meet Nancy Kawaja: a vibrant academic, mom-of-two and athlete with a passion for Crossfit and breaking boundaries in the fitness space....
  • Spring 2022

10 Ways to Refresh and Reset this Spring

If you’re ready to get out and enjoy your surroundings, here are ten ways to refresh and reset this spring:...
  • Spring 2022

Overall Healthy Eating Plan for SCI

A healthy diet is always a good choice; healthy eating can help prevent or manage a specific SCI-related secondary health complication....
  • Winter 2021/2022

SCI & Plant-Based Diets

For ethical, environmental and health reasons, more and more people are choosing plant-based diets....
  • Summer 2021

Cool Summer Salads

We naturally tend to eat less during the hot summer months. When the temperature is very warm, heat loss is impeded and with that, our appetite decreases in an effort to regulate our body temperature and cool down....
  • Spring 2021

Higher Learning

At the start of the year, Spinal Cord Injury Ontario embarked on an exciting journey to bring open and frank conversations to our communities on cannabis and spinal cord injury....
  • Spring 2021

UTIs – Getting off the Merry-go-round

Utiva is my “go-to” recommendation for patients who are motivated to break the pattern and avoid overuse of antibiotics.
- Lorraine Liang, Staff Urologist...
  • Spring 2021

Aging with an SCI

Now years later living with the effects of aging and the strain on my body, if I could do it all over again, I would take into consideration what I could do that would still maintain my independence but in a manner that maintained the quality of living as...
  • Spring 2021

Sex: Does it make you uncomfortable?

Sex is a natural part of life, but it can be taboo and awkward to talk about for anyone....
  • Spring 2021

Spring Refresh

Spring is here and we’re all ready for a re-fresh! One of the best ways you can do this is to reset and support your sleep habits. Sleep is vital for overall health and people living with SCI have a much higher prevalence of sleep disorders than the non-SCI...
  • Winter 2021

Awesomeness During a Pandemic

I consider myself a positive person. Positive…. but realistic. I know how things do not always go our way and, at times, bad things happen to good people, which can be distressing, but a part of life....
  • Winter 2021

Medical Cannabis & Spinal Cord Injury

On October 17th, 2018, Canada became the first nation to legalize cannabis, which followed the legalization of cannabis for medical use two decades earlier....
  • Winter 2021

Covid & Community: The Lasting Effects of a Global Pandemic

How has COVID impacted the spinal cord injury community? It’s a complex issue with many ripple effects....
  • Winter 2021

Let the Sunshine in

People often ask me, if there’s one vitamin I should take what would it be? Regardless of the age, gender or disability of the person asking, without hesitation, Vitamin D is always top of my list. Also known as the Sunshine Vitamin, it is unique because it also acts...
  • Fall 2020

Time to Celebrate

In this special 75th Anniversary Celebration edition, I’d like to congratulate the past and present SCIO staff, volunteers and board members who have dedicated themselves to providing vital services and essential support to people with spinal cord injuries....